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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

—André Gide, 1926

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

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

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

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

—Herman Melville, 1853

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC

New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921
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