Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
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Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCThe atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCWhat one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909