"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 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 (1642-1727)
Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer, Alchemist,
Inventor and Natural Philosopher
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them."
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Italian Physicist, Astronomer and Philosopher
"I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart
which shall not be put out."
II Esdras