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New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

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

—Francis Bacon, 1605

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

—James Joyce, 1922

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

—Emily Dickinson, 1876

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

—John Steinbeck, 1941
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