 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, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.  The Dayspring - Página 871872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alfred Payson Gage - 1898 - 416 páginas
...like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Newton was followed by a very large number of earnest students of nature,... | |
 | Robert Shields - 1900 - 370 páginas
...but to myself I seem to have become only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, 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. I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan... | |
 | 1900 - 372 páginas
...but to myself I seem to have become only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, 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. I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 404 páginas
...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. Other examples are : — A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has... | |
 | David L. Norton - 1976 - 420 páginas
...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...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." 25 Newton's words are poignant and deeply revelatory, but to suppose that... | |
 | Franklin Le Van Baumer - 1978 - 824 páginas
...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.' This change in the scientists' attitude to nature is perhaps best understood... | |
 | H. L. Willmington - 1981 - 1038 páginas
...world; but to myself I seem to have been like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting myself, now 5 ht=2 undiscovered before me" (Sir Isaac Newton). b. To avoid becoming a stumbling stone. "But take heed... | |
 | Mauri Valtonen - 1988 - 462 páginas
...further and says: "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." MJ Valtoiu* (td.). The Few Body Problem. 1-2. 01988 by Kluwer Academic Publishers.... | |
 | Mihai Spariosu - 1989 - 342 páginas
...like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me" (quoted by Werner Heisenberg, in Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science [New... | |
 | Stan Smith - 1990 - 196 páginas
...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'. Humility is deepened in the final stanza. Though now Yeats's imagination is... | |
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