Quote by Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself wo

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. – Oscar Wilde

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. – Oscar Wilde

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. – Oscar Wilde

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. – John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929

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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"

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Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. – Edmund Arthur Helps

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He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe. – Lamartine

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