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“If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”

Isaac Newton · Patience

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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

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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.

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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

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