“They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.”
Shortly before being killed by a Confederate sniper from supposedly approximately 1000 yards away.
“I don’t know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” - Sir Isaac Newton