What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC