* emphasize humility, as in [[Isaac Newton]]'s attitude towards science<ref>"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." [http://www.bartleby.com/100/195.1.html]</ref> | * emphasize humility, as in [[Isaac Newton]]'s attitude towards science<ref>"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." [http://www.bartleby.com/100/195.1.html]</ref> |