Today, the cows mooved Luther, Ron to write: > [as in a paraphrase of Darwin's 'seeing further from standing > on the shoulders of giants'.] Newton's -- "If I have seen further than those who came before, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." (as this is composed from my cheesecloth memory, may be slightly off...) Possibly derived from Robert Burton, who got it from an old Latin philosopher: http://www.bartleby.com/100/151.5.html although of questionable accuracy, these are amusing: http://xp.c2.com/TheThreeExtremos.html http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jhartman/QotW/2002-08-12-Newton.html -- Jonathon Isaac Swiderski \\ dangercat-20 at dangercat.net cs.oberlin.edu/~jswiders \\ www.dangercat.net/?id=mt We have enough youth. How about a fountain of smart?