 | Roscoe Lewis Ashley - 1916 - 788 lapas
...22. A well-known American scholar once said, in speaking of the attainments of the Greeks : " A pigmy standing on the shoulders of a giant can see farther than the giant but he remains a pigmy just the same." What do you think he meant? GREECE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE THE NEAR... | |
 | Friedrich Bente - 1919 - 264 lapas
...Reformers, with our increased advantages we ought to understand the Bible better than they. A dwarf, standing on the shoulders of a giant, can see farther than the giant himself. A confession of faith, therefore, ought not to be like the laws of the Medes and Persians,... | |
 | Kentucky State Bar Association - 1926 - 328 lapas
...the present, and hopefully direct your attention to the future. It has been well said that a dwarf, standing on the shoulders of a giant, can see farther than the giant himself. If men could not profit by the mistakes as well as by the successes of their forebears, then... | |
 | United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors - 1963 - 358 lapas
...life and I do try to look into things "that are being developed. There is an old saying that a pigmy standing on the shoulders of a giant can see farther than the giant. In setting up requirements and assumptions and facts on which dams and various engineering structures... | |
 | 1998 - 648 lapas
...at odds with the notion that progress occurs by building on the work of our predecessors. "A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant can see farther than the giant himself. "l43 Thus, it has been left up to the courts to guard against two extremes equally prejudicial;... | |
 | Antony Anghie, Garry Sturgess - 1998 - 818 lapas
...here as well: The world goes ahead because each of us builds on the work of our predecessors. A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant can see farther than the giant himself.45 But rights which human beings have purely by virtue of their humanity, rights to which the... | |
 | Erin O'Connor - 2000 - 296 lapas
...Esmond235). Monstrous optics did have their limits, however; as one physics book put it, "If a dwarf on the shoulders of a giant can see farther than the giant, he is no less a dwarf in comparison with the giant" (Grove 3). By providing a new way of seeing, monsters... | |
 | Mac Swinford - 2010 - 138 lapas
...or my ability to present it with that of the gentleman who has just preceded me, but a dwarf sitting on the shoulders of a giant can see farther than the giant." The good-natured Taft smiled, sat back in his chair and told him to proceed with his argument. The... | |
 | University of Michigan. Mental Health Research Institute - 1971 - 782 lapas
...from the experience of the natural sciences in this respect and ever recall that . . . a dwarf sitting on the shoulders of a giant can see farther than the giant. FOOTNOTES 1. Wesley N. Hohfeld, Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning, 23... | |
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The world goes ahead because each of us builds on the work of our predecessors. "A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant can see farther than the giant himself. 
