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

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

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

New things are always ugly.

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

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