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.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.

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

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

New things are always ugly.

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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