Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913
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The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942