We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

- Bernard Of Chartres

We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

- Bernard Of Chartres

We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than th…

- Bernard Of Chartres