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

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

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 eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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

The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.

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

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!