When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCOne doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876