New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921
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What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The 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, 1922How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859The 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, 1911Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909