To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
In plain words
He felt like a kid picking up shells with a whole ocean still unexplored.
Where these words come from
- 58% sureLots of sources credit Isaac Newton with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Paraphrase of Newton's sourced 'boy playing on the sea-shore' remark (Brewster, Memoirs, 1855, via Spence's Anecdotes)
