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

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

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

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

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

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

What one man can invent another can discover.

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

What one man can invent another can discover.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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