Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942
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What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957