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

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

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

Francis Bacon
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It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

John Reader, Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Peter S. Beagle, The Tolkien Reader
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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

Jean Piaget
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We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in profusion, and inventors, discoverers, explorers - but where are the great lovers? After a moment's reflection one is back to Abelard and Heloise, or Anthony and Cleopatra, or the story of the Taj Mahal. So much of it is fictive, expanded and glorified by the poverty-stricken lovers whose prayers are answered only by myth and legend.

Henry Miller
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He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Peter S. Beagle, The Tolkien Reader
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