One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911
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The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853