Sir Isaac Newton. 1642-1727. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Sir Isaac Newton. (1642–1727)

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. 1

Brewster’s Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii.

Note 1.
See Milton, Quotation 213. [back]

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