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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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth... "
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 230
1809
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Conceiving the Christian College

Duane Litfin - 2004 - 300 pages
...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." Whole lifetimes of work may touch only the hem of the Christian's intellectual...
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1,001 Meditations

Mike George - 2004 - 388 pages
...have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, 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." 5IR I5AAC NEWTON (16a2-1727) g03 The three candles Three candles dispel the...
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Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Volume 3

Dermot Moran, Lester E. Embree - 2004 - 386 pages
...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." Notes 1 Norwood Russell Hanson, Patterns of Discovery, Cambridge, England,...
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Great Sayings and Quotations

118 pages
...been only 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 of science, if they are worthy of the name, are indeed in God's...
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Cambridge: A Cultural and Literary History

Martin Garrett - 2004 - 284 pages
...have been 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." Some people, of course, fail to find the special pebbles and shells. And some...
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Discovering Nature's Laws: A Story about Isaac Newton

Laura Purdie Salas - 2003 - 72 pages
...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." Clearly, Newton did not remain on the seashore. He dove deep into the ocean...
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Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of ...

Russell McCormmach - 2004 - 278 pages
...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." His biographer, who otherwise emphasizes the domineering side of Newton's...
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Mirror, Mirror: A History Of The Human Love Affair With Reflection

Mark Pendergrast - 2009 - 448 pages
...a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." I Chapter 5 I LOOKING-GLASS LITERATURE Glass is more gentle, graceful, and...
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Growing Up Red: Outing Red America from the Inside

Tim Schilke - 2005 - 294 pages
...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. " TEARS OVER JIMMY —Isaac Newton One of my earliest memories took place in...
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A Reader in Marketing Communications

Philip J. Kitchen - 2005 - 300 pages
...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. While we cannot legitimately liken marketing communications to the realm of...
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