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

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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.

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

What one man can invent another can discover.

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

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

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.