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.

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.

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

What one man can invent another can discover.

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

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

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

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.