Sir Isaac Newton

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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 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."	Excellence, Honesty, Knowledge
"I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me."	Excellence, Honesty, Truth
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent."	Ability, Patience, Talent
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."	Miscellaneous

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