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

When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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

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

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

New things are always ugly.

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