Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859