The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

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

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

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. 

New things are always ugly.

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.