People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing
The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.
The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.
Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.