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Columbus Day

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose. – John George Jones

Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things. – Aldous Huxley, "Wordsworth in the Tropics"

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. – James Joyce

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. – Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999