There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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.

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

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

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

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

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

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

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!