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

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

New things are always ugly.

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

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

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.