When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957
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The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC