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There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.

—John Steinbeck, 1941

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC

When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

—Edith Wharton, 1924

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

—James Joyce, 1922

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

—Anthony Trollope, 1859

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825
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