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.
-- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
-- Brewster's Memoirs of Newton, Vol. ii, Chap. xxvii
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.
-- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
-- Brewster's Memoirs of Newton, Vol. ii, Chap. xxvii
Related:
- If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- Letter to Robert Hooke... - I was never less alone than when by myself.
-- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
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Memoirs, Vol. i, p.... - If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the
shoulder of giants.
Isaac... - If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself,
what am I? If not now, when? -- Rabbi... - Let me think...I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?"
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Tradition tells us these are the last words of sir... - Let me think...I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
Tradition tells us these are the last words of sir... - If I am not for myself, who is for me?
And if I am only for myself,
what am I? If not now, when? -- Rabbi Hillel, in the... - Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what
they appear to be;
or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are... - Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove;
Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593) -- The Jew of Malta...
