Discovery Quotes
Marcel Proust
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.
3549Heidi Reagan
Our ability to discover new experiences exists outside of who we are in the Box.
3980 J.E.B. Spredemann
If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.
4696 Tim Fargo
Good advice is not often served in our favorite flavor.
2057 Idowu Koyenikan
Never underestimate the power of thought; it is the greatest path to discovery.
1194 E.A. Bucchianeri
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.
4906 A.A. Milne
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
2681 Robert James Waller
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
3075 Charles Baxter
When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
1441 William Edgar Stafford
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 had not started to say them.
2267 Marty Rubin
Writing is discovering what you don't know.
3974 Ann Druyan
As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered.
4675 David Attenborough
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
1383 Slash Coleman
Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
1328 Slash Coleman
Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
3795 Slash Coleman
I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.
2840 E.A. Bucchianeri
How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?
4486 Michael Bassey Johnson
The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.
1841 Phillip Gary Smith
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
3311 George Eliot
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
2978 Wally Lamb
The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
4670 André Gide
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
1960 Rachel Carson
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
1900 Clarence Day Jr.
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
3516 Benjamin Wiker
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth
2760 Toba Beta
There were three things sought by invaders who crossed
oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory.
There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens
to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.
1206 Dostoevsky F.
О, будьте уверены, что Колумб был счастлив не тогда, когда открыл Америку, а когда откры%
3775 Rachel Carson
The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
1897 Bertrand Russell
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
3837 Kedar Joshi
The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.
2224 Auliq Ice
The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.
4611 Abraham Lincoln
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
4672 Ogwo David Emenike
Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?
1566 Richard Rhodes
For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery - that most unstable existential moment - the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.
3516 Albert Szent-Györgyi
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
1380 John Gribbin
In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.
1482 James D. Watson
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . .
2893 Mary Shelley
In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.
4964 Friedrich Nietzsche
None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
2614 Thomas Pynchon
It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.
1583 Thomas Hayden
In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.
3933 Gemma Malley
The trouble with science geeks, as you call them, is that hey put discovery before anything else. It was a science geek who discovered the atom bomb. He didn't intend to cause mass murder, but he did nonetheless.
3050 Santiago Ramón Y Cajal
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.
2096 Albert Szent-Györgyi
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
1744 Augustus Pitt Rivers
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks. ... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence ...
1992 Jean-Baptiste Dumas
In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.
4781 Bryant McGill
We must allow people the space and time of discovery, and trust in all that is to come.
3101 Victoria June
Reflections...passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.
4086 Patrick Ness
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it."
[Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)]
1287 Julie Anne Peters
When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.
3810 J. Norman Collie
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
2454 Erol Ozan
Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
1438 Michael Bassey Johnson
I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.
3847 Alberto Caeiro
Even so, I’m somebody.
I’m the Discoverer of Nature.
I’m the Argonaut of true sensations.
I bring a new Universe to the Universe
Because I bring the Universe to itself.
2013 Melvin Schwartz
Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates.
4166 Ivan Michurin
We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.
4525 Cyril Ponnamperuma
Scientists are human - they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
3331 Charlotte Brontë
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.
4678 Zeena Schreck
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.
4613 Bryant McGill
We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.
3509 William Golding
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
2642 Ezra Pound
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
3202 Leonard Nimoy
I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.
4527 Shannon Celebi
A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.
3094 Konrad Lorenz
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
1966 Rob Liano
No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.
2767 Aniekee Tochukwu
Much is yet to be discovered and invented, so dig ideas with uniqueness
3815 Curt Gabrielson
From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively not by removing ourselves from the world to ponder and theorize, but rather by getting our hands dirty and making careful observations of real stuff. In short, we have learned primarily by tinkering.
2379 Spyridon Marinatos
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
4236 Kate Mullane Robertson
Sometimes we go along, thinking
"Ah, this is it - this is what true peace feels like…"
Then, in a moment of grace, something shifts in our hearts,
and in awestruck wonder, we whisper,
"oh my, I just didn't know there could more...
1481 Dan Thompson
Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and people just waiting to be energized, to be empowered, to make a difference for good.
2215 Thomas More
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
1210 Stanisław Lem
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.
3721 Nikki Rowe
We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us.
2861 Taylor Rhodes
We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean.
2716 Samuel R. Delany
You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.
1252 Archimedes
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
2357 Daniel Watts
For what is life but a continuous, dynamic and fluid circle of discoveries that surrounds all peoples and has the power to change even the smallest of us.
1335 Lawren Leo
The secret to excitement is discovering new paths, and having the courage to take them.
2462 Kamal Ravikant
The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible.
4219 François Magendie
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.
2613 Ikechukwu Joseph
Self-identity is about content not the container that carry
the identity,contextual value and not a solo island. It is about conception and not just a birth process.
2810 Michael Bassey Johnson
Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.
3109 Karl H. Pribram
If you knew all about it, it wouldn't be the leading edge.
1590 Gerald Durrell
I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.
4915 Curt Gabrielson
If you tell somebody something, you've forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.
4016 Bryant McGill
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.
2305 Laraine Herring
Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)
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