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

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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

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.

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

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

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.

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