Discovery Quotes

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...

To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, i...

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit ...

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any p...

You seem to like helping, taking care of people," he said. "That is admirable.""You enjoy being nurt...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators...

A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certa...

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery...

No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan o...

The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as tha...

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvary...

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the do...

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it dow...

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know...

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know...

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to res...

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into...

I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations ...

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, ...

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imaginat...

Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He...

Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through cons...

The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Some of these questions don't have finite answers, but the questions themselves are important. Don't...

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa...

They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it.

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the s...

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

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 ...