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Newton's cheap trick to get famous is not giving a name to something everybody knows. It's standing on the shoulder of giants.


Maybe my post is not very clear.

Seth Godin implies that Newton became famous because of something that amounts to a cheap marketing trick, instead of just being a genius who revolutionized math and physics.

I say if you want to find something cheap in what Newton has done, the only thing you can do is look at what modesty made him say about himself:'If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants'.

So now if you vote my post down, I'll know it's not a misunderstanding.




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