There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.
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What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking ye colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
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If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
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If I have seen farther than others it has been by standing on the shoulders of giants
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
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Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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