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Jonathan Swift1 quote
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. — Jonathan Swift · 1726Mark Pattison1 quote
In research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. As the power of endurance weakens with age, the urgency of the pursuit grows more intense... And research is always incomplete. — Mark Pattison · 1875Wernher von Braun1 quote
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. — Wernher von Braun · 1973