Quotes About Discovery

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.

Naw, man, I like big, hard, throbbing co- (stunned pause) ...I did not know that about myself.

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.