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Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC

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

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

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

—John Steinbeck, 1941

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

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

—André Gide, 1926

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

—James Joyce, 1922

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

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

—Edith Wharton, 1924

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

—Emily Dickinson, 1876
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