Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Quotes
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCWhat one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976