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

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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

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

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.