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

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

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.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

New things are always ugly.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

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