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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

New things are always ugly.

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

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

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

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

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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