| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 41419 |
| QUOTATION: | I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Isaac Newton (16421727), British mathematician, physicist. Memoirs of Newton, vol. 2, ch. 27, ed. David Brewster (1855). |
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