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.[278:2]
Brewster's Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii.
Footnotes
[278:2] See Milton, page 241.
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