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

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

New things are always ugly.

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.

What one man can invent another can discover.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

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

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.

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

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.