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

New things are always ugly.

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.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

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

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

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

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

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