There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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

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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

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

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

New things are always ugly.

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

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

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

What one man can invent another can discover.