Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
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When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909