"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."
Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist whose work transformed mechanics, optics, and astronomy. His formulation of the laws of motion and universal gravitation became foundational to classical physics.