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Results from Cole's Quotables:

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
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 (1642 - 1727)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

Results from Poor Man's College:

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 sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.: Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), Paraphrase of 12th century quote by Bernard of Chartres

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