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

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

—James Joyce, 1922

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

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC

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

—John Steinbeck, 1941

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

—Anthony Trollope, 1859

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913
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