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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. ↗

— Max Planck

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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. ↗

— Simeon Poisson

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Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves. ↗

— Protagoras

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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. ↗

— Quintilian

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