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

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

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

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