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

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

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

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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

New things are always ugly.

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

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