Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

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

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

New things are always ugly.

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

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

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.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

What one man can invent another can discover.

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

What one man can invent another can discover.

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