One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

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

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

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.

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

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

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

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