True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924
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The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957