Originally posted by PonderableGoogle Translate renders this as:
Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos gigantum umeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvehimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.
John of Salisbury
"Bernard we were like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more and further, it is not our own clear eyes or bony body but rather high and upborne gigantic size."
Wikiquote, on the other hand, offers it this way:
"Bernard of Chartres used to say that we were like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of giants. If we see more and further than they, it is not due to our own clear eyes or tall bodies, but because we are raised on high and upborne by their gigantic bigness."
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