The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
Discovery And Invention
I do not know
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.
Isaac Newton
I hope that posterity
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes