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Who said they stood on the shoulders of Maxwell, rather than Newton?

  • Albert Einstein

  • Niels Bohr

  • Richard Feynman

  • Stephen Hawking

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Albert Einstein, during a visit to the University of Cambridge in 1922, said that he stood on the shoulders of James Clerk Maxwell, rather than Isaac Newton. This statement highlights the importance of Maxwell's work in the development of modern physics and its influence on Einstein's own groundbreaking theories.
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