Quotes About Discovery

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

Excerpt from The Seeker's Mind

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

The way back to yourself is through refusal and rejection.

Science is about learning 'what something is' and spirituality is about knowing 'who I am'. The

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Press on where truth begins to dawn.

Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.

To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.

Tear your heart away from everything else; then seek God and you will surely find him.

When we feel confident that our skills can be a contribution to others, we discover another source of internal satisfaction.

Look, Papa! Rocks! Right there ahead! We should beware of them as you said.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?

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.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

It often happens, with regard to new inventions, that one part of the general public finds them useless and another part considers them to be impossible. When it becomes clear that the possibility and the usefulness can no longer be denied, most agree that the thing was fairly easy to discover and that they knew it was significant. —Abraham Edelcrantz, Treatise on Telegraphs (1796)

Have fun, and learn something.

If you really want to communicate something, even if it's just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you're getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.

Stanton T. Friedman

Boldly live as you've never lived before