Many thanks to Michael MacFarlane, who spotted a perfectly sensible piece of advice recently and presumably thought we could do with it.
It appeared outside the Queen's Arms on Frederick Street at the weekend.
For reasons we shall not go into, Mr MacFarlane entertains serious doubts as to its provenance, and warns us to be on our journalistic guard at all times when accessing anything from the Internet about anything.
More reliably sourced is this Newton quotation which appears in the Anecdotes of Joseph Spence:
I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great sea of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Many years later, Albert Einstein commented in his Autobiographical Notes:
Newton forgive me. You found the only way that, in your day, was at all possible for a man of the highest powers of intellect and creativity. The concepts that you created still dominate the way we think in physics, although we now know that they must be replaced by others farther removed from the sphere of immediate experience if we want to try for a more profound understanding of the way things are interrelated.
Einstein forgive us. A perfectly straightforward interrelation of alcohol, A-boards and questionable source material has recently been staring us in the face outside No. 49a Broughton Street every day for at least the last fortnight.
Pitt and Jolie bought the 1,200-acre Chateau Miraval vineyard in 2012 for a trifling £41m. That's according to the Mail Online, so it must be true.