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What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

—Edith Wharton, 1924

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

—Emily Dickinson, 1876

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

—Albert Einstein, 1936

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC

The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.

—John Steinbeck, 1941

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

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

—James Joyce, 1922