The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

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

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

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

New things are always ugly.

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

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

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