What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905
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The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCOne sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909