...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...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." What an astonishing, humble statement from one so profound and of such original...

...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...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.1 Isaac Newton's (1642-1727) place in the history of modern science, despite...

...of Giants"; late in life he had compared himself to a boy discovering pretty pebbles on the seashore "while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The philosophes liked to repeat these remarks as valuable support for the Enlightenment's campaign against...

...like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding another pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. This is the modesty of acknowledged genius, but no less valid for that. What...

...the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Introduction Advanced Physics for You is designed to help and support you during...

...the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me'. Perhaps it may seem not so strange after all that the adherents of the new...

...the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton ABSTRACT The Central Indian Ocean Basin (CIOB). located between...

...the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton Many pages in Physics for You are coded, to help you to decide...

...but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. (Newton in Brewster 1860, 2: 331) intellect that grasps both complexity and...

...like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me'.28 BALANCING ACTS Recalling this statement of Newton's, the historian Jacques...