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What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

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

—Edith Wharton, 1924

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

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

—André Gide, 1926

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

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC
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