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Newton on the boy by the sea
I don’t know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Recorded in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters of Books and Men · c. 1727 · His last words, as recorded by Joseph Spence. · Education