"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."
-Isaac Newton
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"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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"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
-Isaac Newton
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"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
-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."
-Isaac Newton
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"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
-Isaac Newton
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"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
-Theodore Bikel
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"My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way."
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"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."
-Karl Kraus
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"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."
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