The Dancing Universe, Marcelo Gleiser, Dutton ISBN 0-525-94112-6, Call number QB981.G57 1997

Pages 130-131 "It is in one of the letters to Hooke that we find Newton's remark,"If I have seen further [than you] it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Out of context, Newton's statement seems to have been uttered in pure modesty, when in fact it was a sarcastic remark directed at Hooke's smaller intellectual (and physical, as Hooke was nearly a dwarf) stature."