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I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.
Max Born
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There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

anne morrow lindbergh

— North to the Orient (1935) Ch. 1

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I could not find the way to God;There were too many flaming sunsFor signposts, and the fearful roadLed over wastes where millionsOf tangled comets hissed and burned—I was bewildered and I turned.


— Poem The White Moth

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The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

Louis Kronenberger

— p. 26 (Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954))

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The safest road to Hell is the gradual one the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C. S. Lewis

— Letter XII (The Screwtape Letters (1942))

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