Quotes About Discovery

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Each man must have his own special route to lead him to God.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.

How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.