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What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

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

—John Steinbeck, 1941

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

—Edith Wharton, 1924

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

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

—Francis Bacon, 1605

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC

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

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909
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