Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

What one man can invent another can discover.

New things are always ugly.

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.

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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

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

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

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.