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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.

  Source: 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
• ordinary
• whilst
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