Where would you find the inscription "standing on the shoulders of giants"?

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FIRST CORRECT ANSWER GETS 10 POINTS

Answer 1

on the edge of a £2 coin

Answer 2

Certainly on one of the coins - can't remember which.

Most people attribute the saying to Isaac Newton, who did indeed say something along the lines of "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".

However, in a vain attempt to gather points, or at least kudos, even if I haven't actually answered the question, the quote was first made by Bernard of Chartres in the 12th century "we are dwarfs, standing on the shoulders of giants", a saying reported by John of Salisbury.

Answer 3

After seeing the inscription on a £2 coin, Noel Gallagher of British band Oasis decided to name their fourth studio album after it, but in his mildly inebriated state, wrote down the inscription as Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. The phrase also appears in the song King of Birds by the U.S. rock band R.E.M. as the lyric "...standing on the shoulders of giants / leaves me cold."
The phrase is used by the major figure in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose, William of Baskerville.
Google Scholar has adopted "Stand on the shoulders of giants" as its motto.
MIT professor Hal Abelson is credited with the quip "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." Abelson himself attributes it to his Princeton University roommate, Jeff Goll[citation needed].

Answer 4

on a £2 coin

Answer 5

£2 coin. I know I'm not the first, but if I say it is attributed to Sir Isaac Newton do I get the points?

Answer 6

In any event, Newton may have borrowed the phrase "on the shoulders of giants" from earlier writers, but the specific quote that is referenced on our site is his and his alone. The phrase is indeed a commonly cited one, as the following examples illustrate.

"We are like dwarfs standing [or sitting] upon the shoulders of giants, and so able to see more and see farther than the ancients."
- Bernard of Chartres, circa 1130
"Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness on sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size."
- John of Salisbury, Metalogicon, 1159
"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."
- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621
"Dwarfs on the shoulders of giants see further than the giants themselves."
- Stella Didacus, Eximii verbi divini CONCIONATORIS ORDINNIS MINORUM Regularis Observantiae, 1622
"A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two."
- George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
- Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 1676
"Newton won the race in part because, as he put it, he had stood on the shoulders of giants and in part because he just happened to be the biggest giant of them all."
- Alan Cromer, Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science, 1993
"In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand."
- Gerald Holton
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders."
- Hal Abelson

Answer 7

£1 pound coin?

Answer 8

Tatooed on the back of Atlas's neck

Answer 9

On A two pound coin,
I didn't know till I read all the other answers
Another bit of u/i to store in my brain Thanks.

Answer 10

on a £2 coin?

darn i got beaten!