One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCAppearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCI learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605