Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

New things are always ugly.

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

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

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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.