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

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

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

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

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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.