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

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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.

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

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.

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

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