...Brewster's (17811868) The Life of Sir Isaac Newton: "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 by now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than...

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...looked back at his accomplishments and, in what has become a famous remark, described them modestly: "I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore . . . finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth...

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...world. His following words would speak in proof. "/ 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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,...

...Socrates), pp 6 and referred elsewhere in this work also. "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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,...

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...K. Satchidanandan, (How to go to the Tao Temple) 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 seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smooth pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary...

...What did Newton observe about his state of knowledge? / do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than...