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

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

What one man can invent another can discover.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

What one man can invent another can discover.

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.

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

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