牛顿发现了万有引力。当人们称道他的伟大发现时,他说了这样一句话:我所以能有这个发现,是因为我站在巨人的肩膀上。人们一般多认为这是牛顿的谦虚,其实这更是一个事实,一个人类社会文明发展进程中的客观现象。可咱们的人却很难说出这个话来。咱们更习惯于敬畏巨人,或把巨人顶在头上顶礼膜拜,或跪在巨人脚下对其高山仰止。“站在巨人的肩膀上”?那是大不敬! Newton discovered gravitation. When people praised him for his great discovery, he said the following sentence: I can find this because I am standing on the shoulders of giants. People generally think this is Newton’s modesty, in fact, this is even more a fact, an objective phenomenon in the process of the development of human civilization. But we people are hard to say this. We are more accustomed to fear the giants, or worship the giants on top of their heads, or kneel at the feet of the giant mountain Yangzhi. “Standing on the shoulders of giants ”? That is disrespectful!