That would be Newton, not Einstein.

On 6/9/2012 9:11 PM, Steve Kates wrote:
>  ... He wrote:
>
> "In the past I have no doubt bored you with the story of how in my last
> year at Waterloo ... I don't recall if Sidney used the Einstein quote,
  "if I see further it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants" ...

The curse of the Internet is that we can now verify in a few seconds
that Newton was far from the first to use this metaphor,
but his use is the most famous.

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Martin C. Tangora
tangora (at) uic.edu