To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself 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
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. – Isaac Newton
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. – Isaac Newton
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature