There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909
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What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCWhen they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825