Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCA 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, 1941What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926