Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

What one man can invent another can discover.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.