Quotes About Discovery

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives . . . most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity . . . when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

No one knows what he can to do until he tries.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.

There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

Failure ... is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him, you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try.

Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.

No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

Hunting God is a great adventure.