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What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. 

—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

—Emily Dickinson, 1876

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

—Albert Einstein, 1936

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC

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

—Francis Bacon, 1605

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

—Anthony Trollope, 1859

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957