 | Edmund Routledge - 1864 - 1042 頁
...really knew ; and he recorded this a short time before his death in the following memorable words : " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Above all, Sir... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 444 頁
...Another anecdote illustrates his modesty. ,A short time before his death he remarked, " I know not what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." QUESTIONS. —... | |
 | Francis Pigou - 1865 - 336 頁
...saying of one of the highest genius. Newton thus speaks of himself shortly before his death : — " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." So with travel.... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 312 頁
...the Qld Law I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only as 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. SrR IsAAC NEWTON.... | |
 | Deborah Cassidi - 2003 - 196 頁
...Tuscany fc==! 1 do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, 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),... | |
 | Donald C. Benson - 2003 - 286 頁
...I do not know what I may appear to the ivorld; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a child playing on the seashore, 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 be fore me. — Is A AC NEWT0N... | |
 | J. B. Kennedy, John Bernard Kennedy - 2003 - 262 頁
...seem to the world, but, as 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. (Newton, shortly... | |
 | Dermot Moran, Lester E. Embree - 2004 - 386 頁
...unforeseeable and even w«thinkable. The great Newton himself was not a stranger to this attitude: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Notes 1 Norwood... | |
 | Norman K. Glendenning - 2004 - 232 頁
...our galaxy 100 7.4 Boxes 26-29 194 Books for Further Study 198 Index. . 201 Preface I know not what I appear to the world. but to myself I seem to have...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell. whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. — Isaac Newton. Memoirs The... | |
 | Mark Pendergrast - 2009 - 448 頁
...know what I may appear to the world," Newton told a visitor shortly before his death at eighty-four, "but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy,...myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." I... | |
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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... 
