{"id":178,"date":"2017-06-24T13:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T13:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2017-06-24T13:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T13:38:36","slug":"standing-on-the-shoilders-of-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/standing-on-the-shoilders-of-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing on the shoilders of Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tpkqwyhy8q4-aneta-ivanova.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tpkqwyhy8q4-aneta-ivanova-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Three centuries after Newton <a href=\"http:\/\/brainpickings.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=13eb080d8a315477042e0d5b1&amp;id=c5511f34d9&amp;e=8eaa8c4b80\"><span class=\"s2\">popularized his famous \u201cstanding on the shoulders of giants\u201d metaphor,<\/span><\/a> Einstein writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;How strange is <\/em>the lot<em> of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper <\/em>reflection<em> one knows from daily life that one exists for other people \u2014 first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and <\/em>dead,<em> and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow-men. I <\/em>regard<em> class distinctions as unjustified and, in the last resort, based on force. I also believe that a simple and unassuming life is good for everybody, physically and mentally.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three centuries after Newton popularized his famous \u201cstanding on the shoulders of giants\u201d metaphor, Einstein writes: &#8220;How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/standing-on-the-shoilders-of-giants\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-admin","post-178","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankpolster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}