What one man can invent another can discover.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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

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

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

New things are always ugly.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

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.

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