ISAAC NEWTON'S QUOTE SUMS UP MY OWN VIEW OF LIFE QUITE WELL -- EXCEPT THAT HE, YOU KNOW, DISCOVERED GRAVITY, AND I, UM, DIDN'T

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, diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

-- Isaac Newton