Who said “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”?

“If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.”

“What has become clear to you since we last met?”

“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

“If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.”

“The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.”

“Silence is the virtue of a fool.”

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

“Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.”

“We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.”