Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

What one man can invent another can discover.