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“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“The discovery that the universe is expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
“Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find truth, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.” Heraclitus, On Nature
“Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“The answer is meaningless unless you discover it for yourself.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“Our real discoveries come from chaos . . . from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“The earth does not want new continents, but new men.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?” Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself — to be is to be related.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.” Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
“For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” James Joyce, Ulysses

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