Quotes About Discovery

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Everything in the world was my Guru.

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

People such as inventors searching for new material, make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition.

Find your I first and then dissolve in it!

But then some people showed me: That anger is good But with action is better. That remembering is good But with hope it is better. That change is good But with discovery it is better. That questioning is good But with trust it is better. That resisting is good But sometimes those you resist do not matter. And that standing up is good But standing up alongside others is better.

Maybe you only get one chance at meeting somebody who really gets inside you, wakes corners of your mind and heart that you didn't know were asleep.

Bell invented the telephone while tinkering with acoustic telegraphy; Edison invented the phonograph while tinkering with the telephone.

Graham conveys the sense that good ideas are plentiful, waiting for someone to come along and pluck them off the ground. "There's a bunch of things like that," he says.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you're not doing field work

When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved.

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

I had fallen in love, even if she was still finding her way.

If you wait long enough," he said, "people will surprise and impress you.

stone. I wanted to try fish gravy—a recipe I'd gotten in Panama—so I was adding spices to flour when Tomlinson reappeared. He carried two photos

Curiosity is an engine of success.

You can never stop discovering music.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.