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

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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live –moreover, the only one. – E. M. Cioran

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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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