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

New things are always ugly.

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.

What one man can invent another can discover.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

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

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.