A pebble

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 seashore, 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. English Physicist. 1642 1727.

Well, if that is how England's greatest physicist felt, how am I expected to feel?