Quote#Nature
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to…
Quote byIsaac Newton · 1643–1727
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) by Sir David Brewster (Volume II. Ch. 27). Compare: "As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore", John Milton, Paradise Regained, Book iv. Line 330.
English (original)
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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