Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Quotes
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCThe unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC