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.

New things are always ugly.

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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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