John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3035 Sir Isaa Newton 1642-1727 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 3035 |
| AUTHOR: | Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Brewster’s Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii. |
| Note 1. See Milton, Quotation 213. [back] |