There is a close relationship between the “ha-ha” of humor and the “aha!” of discovery

Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better.

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle.

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the...

When we did that, we found that putting a little nitrogen in these molecules explained the troubling molecules. This discovery takes this reservoir of molecules that we didn’t think were interesting and transforms all this...

I observed that plants not only have a faculty to correct bad air in six to ten days, by growing in it…but that they perform this important office in a complete manner in a few...

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible.

To find is the thing.

To wander is to be alive.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he...