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

—John Steinbeck, 1941

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

—Herman Melville, 1853

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

—Edith Wharton, 1924

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

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

—Francis Bacon, 1605

When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

—Emily Dickinson, 1876

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

—Albert Einstein, 1936