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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

—Francis Bacon, 1605

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

—Emily Dickinson, 1876

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

—Anthony Trollope, 1859

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

—Edith Wharton, 1924

The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.

—John Steinbeck, 1941

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

—James Joyce, 1922