They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Quotes
Nature 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, 1922What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCEvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924