New things are always ugly.

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

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

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

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

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

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

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

What one man can invent another can discover.