What one man can invent another can discover.

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

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

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.

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.

New things are always ugly.

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.