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Newton was relatively modest about his achievements, writing in a letter to Robert Hooke in February 1676 :
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
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In a later memoir, Newton wrote:✍
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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."
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Newton was relatively modest about his achievements, writing in a letter to Robert Hooke in February 1676 :
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
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In a later memoir, Newton wrote:✍
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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."
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