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

New things are always ugly.

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

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

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

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

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