Quotes About Discovery

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

We all have music inside us, and can learn how to get it out, one way or another.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.

Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention.

You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence, to change.

The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.

I do not seek. I find.