In 1703 he became president of the Royal Society. Science was never quite the same after Newton's discoveries. Little
  wonder that the eighteenth-century poet Pope, looking back at Newton's work, wrote:
一七○三年他成为皇家学会的主席，自从牛顿的各种发现之后，科学不再和以前一样了，难怪十八世纪的诗人波普，回顾牛顿的作品时
，写下：
"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, Let Newton be! -- And all was light."
「自然和自然律隐藏于黑夜；上帝说：让牛顿存在，则一切有光明」。
Newton, however, never rested on his fame.
然而牛顿从不因名气而满足。
He continued to work and study.
他仍然继续工作和研究。
In his last years he once said to a friend, "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 now and then finding a smooth pebble of a pretty shell, while the
 great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me."
在他晚年，他曾经对朋友说：「我不知道我在世人的眼中是什么样的人，但对我个人而言，我只不过像一个在海边玩耍的小孩
，偶尔发现一颗光滑的圆石，或一颗漂亮的贝壳，而躺在我面前的是未被发现的真理大海。」

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