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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. 

—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

—Anthony Trollope, 1859

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

—James Joyce, 1922

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

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976
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