Isaac Newton — "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been …"

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 — Isaac Newton Early Modern · Laws of motion and gravity

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Reported deathbed reflection, or shortly before his death

Date: 1726 or 1727

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