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

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

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

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

New things are always ugly.

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

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

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.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.