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How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

—Anthony Trollope, 1859

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

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

—Edith Wharton, 1924

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

—Albert Einstein, 1936
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