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

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

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

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

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.

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

What one man can invent another can discover.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.