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

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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

When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”

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

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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.