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Quotes About Discovery

But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.
~ Auguste Comte
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
~ Donald Knuth
When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.
~ Michio Kaku
You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
~ Steve Jobs
I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.
~ Jeanne Moreau
In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.
~ Linus Pauling
I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.
~ Grandma Moses
If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want.
~ Zendaya
The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.
~ Clifford Stoll
Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to do.
~ Larry David
What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?
~ Ivan Illich
Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.
~ Alexander Isley
The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.
~ Jim Rohn
Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.
~ Leon Brown
I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.
~ Jerrie Cobb
Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.
~ John Grisham
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
~ Ernest Shackleton
I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.
~ Gregory Colbert
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
~ Tony Robbins
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.
~ Elmore Leonard
After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.
~ Audrey Tautou
"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".
~ James Nicoll
A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.
~ Mark Kurlansky