Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913
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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, 1976The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC