New things are always ugly.

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

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

When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”

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

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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.