What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859One 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, 1922New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876