Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCThe unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913