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Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home. — Carl Sagan
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having… — Jean Rostand
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness… — William Beebe
The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice — Mark Horton
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which… — Annie Besant
We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown… — Guy Laliberte
Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and… — Henry Ward Beecher
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself. — Oprah Winfrey
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in… — Benjamin Disraeli
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. — Ezra Pound
And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This… — Julia Cameron
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster
Gone before To that unknown and silent shore. — Charles Lamb
Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a… — Charles Saatchi
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the… — Minnie Louise Haskins
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering… — Winston Churchill
When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting. — Doris Brown Heritage

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