Quotes About Discovery

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available... a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

We are sent into this world for some end. It is our duty to discover by close study what this end is and when we once discover it to pursue it

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As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has- or ever will have- something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.

It's good to be curious about many things.

A friend of mine was in a taxi in Washington, D.C., going slowly past the National Archives, when he noticed the words on the cornerstone of the building: "The past is prologue." He read them out loud to the taxi driver and said, "What do you think that means, 'The past is prologue'?" The taxi driver said, "I think it means, 'Man, you ain't seen nothin' yet!

To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

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1. Knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."--

he knew that he'd run into his destiny as a man in the dark walks into a wall.

In the cavity were two handguns with ammunition clips.

And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

I found my home in books, Where dreams were realised...

A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

For believe me! - the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas!… Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer!

I have wound my way through a jungle of lies and am on the track of only half the truth. In China, nobody gets to know the whole truth.