"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
-Isaac Newton
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"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.“
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