To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore... whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Isaac NewtonQuoted in David Brewster, Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton (1855)
About Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist who formulated the laws of motion and gravity. (1643-1727)
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- Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse, manuscript
- If I have done the public any service this way, 'tis due to nothing but industry and a patient thought.Letter to Richard Bentley (1692)
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