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

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

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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

New things are always ugly.

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

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.