![Bernard of Chartres Quote - We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/we-the-moderns-are-like-dwarves-perched-on-the-sho.jpg)
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![Bernard of Chartres Quote - We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/blue-we-the-moderns-are-like-dwarves-perched-.jpg)
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![Bernard of Chartres Quote - We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/white-we-the-moderns-are-like-dwarves-perched-.jpg)
Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.
BERNARD OF CHARTRES
We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.
![Bernard of Chartres Quote - We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients].](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/we-are-like-dwarfs-the-moderns-sitting-on-the-shou.jpg)