Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his …

Charles Sanders Peirce
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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the whole ocean lies before us unexplored remains substantially as true as ever, and will do so though we shovel up the pebbles by steam shovels and carry them off in carloads. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). Collected Papers, p.47, Harvard University Press
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