"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 sea-shore, 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 (1642 - 1727)  Brewster's Memoirs of Newton.  Vol. ii. Chap.xxvii

 

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