Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942
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New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941The 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, 1957They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942