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There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact… — William Cecil Dampier
Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much… — William Lipscomb
For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?' — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown,… — Ray Bradbury
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. — Charles de Gaulle
There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not… — Bengt I. Samuelsson
When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's… — Jeremy Piven
The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. — Leo Tolstoy
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown. — Rabindranath Tagore
The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves… — Hannah Whitall Smith
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books… — Pearl S. Buck
Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new… — Saadi
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. — James Russell Lowell
YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. — Ambrose Bierce
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. — Mark Twain
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. — William Penn
Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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