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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

—Francis Bacon, 1605

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

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

—Albert Einstein, 1936

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

—Emily Dickinson, 1876

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC

The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.

—John Steinbeck, 1941

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
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