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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; bu

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. – William M. Evarts

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An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. – Enrico Fermi

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. – Albert Camus

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