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Lord George Gordon Byron
(22 Jan 1788 - 19 Apr 1824)
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Lord Byron - Illustrated Quote
On Isaac Newton's “Playing on the Seashore”
Pebble Background - Medium (500 x 300 px)
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“Newton, (that proverb of the mind,) alas!
Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent,
That he himself felt only ‘like a youth
Picking up shells by the great ocean—Truth.’”
Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent,
That he himself felt only ‘like a youth
Picking up shells by the great ocean—Truth.’”
— Lord Byron
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- Science Quotes by Lord George Gordon Byron.
- Lord Byron - On Newton's “Playing on the Seashore” illustrated quote - Pebble Background - Large 800px.
- Lord Byron - On Newton's “Playing on the Seashore” illustrated quote - Ocean Background - Medium 500px.
- Lord Byron - On Newton's “Playing on the Seashore” illustrated quote - Ocean Background - Large 800px.