Isaac Newton: I seem to...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

TECH & SCIENCE > mathematician, philosopher > Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton: I seem to...

Vendor: TECH & SCIENCE

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

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.

Source: Memoirs of Newton, vol. 2, ch. 27 (ed. by David Brewster, 1855).
-- Isaac Newton, (Dec 25 1642-1727), English mathematician, philosopher; He was first to describe the laws of motion and universal gravitation; also invented the reflecting telescope, 1668.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA