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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

I do not seek. I find.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.