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

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.

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.

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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

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

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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