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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

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

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

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

—James Joyce, 1922

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

—Albert Einstein, 1936

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

—Edith Wharton, 1924

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

—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942

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

—Francis Bacon, 1605

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

—John Steinbeck, 1941

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC

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

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825
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