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 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)
-- Brewster's Memoirs of Newton, Vol. ii, Chap. xxvii