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What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. – Margot Asquith

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There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith. – Margot Asquith

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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs –apart from discernment –a certain greatness to find him. – Margot Asquith

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

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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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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic, 1928

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