When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Quotes
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCThe unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876