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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 pla..." — Isaac Newton
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 now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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