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

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

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

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

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

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

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

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