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

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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

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

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

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.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.