Little and Happy: Isaac Newton's Ocean of Truth and the Paradox of Humility

We only know that we are growing when we feel little but happy.

“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 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 before me.” Sir Isaac Newton

A portrait of Isaac Newton with this quote hung on the …