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

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

New things are always ugly.

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

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

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

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

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