Ich weiß nicht, was die Welt von mir denkt; ich selber aber komme ich vor, wie ein Knabe, der am Seegestade spielt, und sich freut, wenn er zuweilen einen glatteren Kieselstein, oder eine hübschere Muschel als gewöhnlich findet, aber der große Ocean der Wahrheit liegt noch unentdeckt vor mir.

Isaac Newton

I don´t know what I may 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.

Isaac Newton
Ich weiß nicht, was die Welt von mir denkt; ich selber aber komme ich vor,… - Isaac Newton Zitate
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Zeitung für die elegante Welt, 9. September 1820, Sp. 1406 books.google Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men: Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope and Other Eminent Persons of His Time, by Rev. Joseph Spence. Now first published from the Original Papers, with Notes, and a Life of the Author by Samuel Weller Singer. Edinburgh 1820, p. 54 . Siehe auch The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Nine Volumes, Complete, Volume the Second. London 1797. p. 403

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englischer Physiker und Mathematiker, Astronom, Alchemist, Philosoph
* 4.1. 1643 - Lincolnshire , England
31.3. 1727 - London , England
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