| 1866 - 302 pages
...that there was very much that he did not know; and shortly before 'his death he said, " I know not how I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to...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... | |
| Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1832 - 420 pages
...of the best parts of his shining example. A short time before his death he said, ' I do not know how I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to...boy, playing on the seashore and diverting myself with finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay... | |
| Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1843 - 856 pages
...Newton's self-deprecating remark, at the close of that career which did so much for science, was — "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...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... | |
| 1843 - 574 pages
...Isaac Newton ; yet how low was his own estimate of his great acquirements. " I do not know," he said, what I may appear to the world, but, to myself, I...sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered... | |
| Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - 448 pages
...reasonable does that language now appear, at which we were once amazed. " I do not know," said Newton, " what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem...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... | |
| Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 pages
...acquirements, he recognised his own littleness in thus speaking just before his death : ' I know not what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem...boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or prettier shell than ordinary : whilst the great ocean... | |
| David Warren Cohen, James M. Henle - 2005 - 1014 pages
...time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half. — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz / do not know what I may appear to the world, but to...like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting m\self in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great... | |
| H.E. Gruber, Katja Bödeker - 2005 - 564 pages
...their experience of the universe is shown in Newton's own remark, and its likeness to Blake's lines: I do not know what I may appear to the world; but...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... | |
| Jennifer Ouellette - 2005 - 340 pages
...shoulders of giants. "I do not know what I may appear to the world," he once wrote in his journals. "But to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy,...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... | |
| Philip J. Kitchen - 2005 - 300 pages
...and incalculable human energy devoted to each topic lies below the surface. Isaac Newton once said: to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...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... | |
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