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What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

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

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

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

—John Steinbeck, 1941

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

—Edith Wharton, 1924

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

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

—André Gide, 1926

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

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

—Albert Einstein, 1936

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

—Francis Bacon, 1605
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