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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820)

  Sir Isaac Newton
  British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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• I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Sir Isaac Newton
  British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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• prettier
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• whilst
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