New things are always ugly.

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

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

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

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

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.

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.