Sir Isaac had a way with words

I ran across this quote in a novel I read a year or so ago. It struck a chord so I printed a copy and taped it up at my desk. Perhaps you will enjoy it as well.

“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.”

—Isaac Newton.

“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.”

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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 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.”