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

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Isaac Newton

English natural philosopher born in 1643 who formulated universal gravitation and three laws of motion. His Principia established classical mechanics and remains a landmark of science.

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Source: Brewster's Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855)Unverified

Isaac Newton's Other Quotes

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

I frame no hypotheses.

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