Today marks the 280th anniversary of Isaac Newton’s demise. Newton was a man so far above us, he was a genius amongst geniuses. Apart from the obligatory “shoulder of giants” quote, here is one of his more illuminating quotes:
I know not what I 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 now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell, whilest the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Quoted in D Brewster, Memoirs of Newton