"It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer……" — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
• The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you… — David Attenborough
• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it… — Douglas Adams
• Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for… — Bob Beauprez
• The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's… — Bob Beauprez
• For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger
• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the… — Alexander Graham Bell
• With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery. — Paul Berg
• A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'… — John Berger

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