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.

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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

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.

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

New things are always ugly.

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

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!