Quotes About Discovery

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

I never realized that there was history, close at hand, beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.

Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

You never know what you can do till you try.

I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

If you don't try something, you never know.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.