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Playing on the Beach: How Sir Isaac Newton Felt About Himself

Playing on the Beach: How Sir Isaac Newton Felt About Himself

True growth is not about expanding; it’s about going to the Ocean.

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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 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

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