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Sir Isaac Newton
(25 Dec 1642 - 20 Mar 1727)
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Isaac Newton - Illustrated Quote
“Playing on the Seashore”
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“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 seashore, 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.”
— Isaac Newton
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- Science Quotes by Sir Isaac Newton.
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- Isaac Newton - biography from Famous Men of Science (1889)
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- Sir Isaac Newton’s Apple-Tree - debunking the myth, from Historic Ninepins: A Book of Curiosities by John Timbs (1869)
- Newton and the Dog - debunking the myth about Newton’s dog Diamond.
- Booklist for Isaac Newton.