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Originally Posted by Robh
It's been bugging me for days. I finally remembered who made that memorable quote ...
"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".
O.K. I was only moderately close in the telling!
Apologies to Isaac Newton.
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Lovely quote! And indeed undiscoverable perhaps. It seems to me that we can only ever have a model of the world, informed by our senses and contained in our mind. We only have a model even of ourselves - we cannot truly know our liver, lungs, how a thought becomes a movement or a photon becomes an experience. We cannot even truly know the mind and how it knows. But the search and refinement and elaboration of that model is fantastic.