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."

Newton Discovers Miseltoe

ATTRIBUTION
:Brewster's Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii
John Bartlett (1820–1905).Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.