They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Quotes
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCThe discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905