Discovery Quotes

You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at yo...

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in purs...

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of mode...

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not bei...

How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

What I learned on my own I still remember

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practic...

Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay d...

Think of a "discovery" as an act that moves the arrival of information from a later point in time to...

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum...

Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to ...

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been de...

To find is the thing.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for ...

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majest...

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literatur...

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enoug...

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but al...

That night he wrote in his diary, "Challenge a remaining taboo." It was that simple. He had always w...

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does ...

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges....

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to rec...

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new stree...

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originali...

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the inve...

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am...

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own lab...

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of...

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hy...

During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a sour...

Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, i.e. with the recognition that nature has somehow...

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from...

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither abilit...

It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Geor...

Somewhere in this world there exists an exceptional philosopher named Florie Rotondo.The other day I...

I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yo...

Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with ...

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own...

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

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering thei...

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea firs...

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. ...

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

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to ...

A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a wh...

You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data.

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that...

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

Come out of the don'ts and impossibles. Manifest your dream. Bloom your worth.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov...

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not...

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: ...

The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open...

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it...

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and...

I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff t...

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no lon...

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better ...

Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air...

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and...

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t...

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis...

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Everyone was doing that in their own way, rejecting things and moving on. It's just a part of discov...

I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahea...

The wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgments until the ...

I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a for...

It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as inc...

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater si...

On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing ...

What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery ...

The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she l...

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

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

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

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

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

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

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

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a se...

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it w...

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perha...