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Quotes About Discovery

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
~ Jack Kerouac
I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
God has created the world to play hide-and-seek with man.
~ Kedar Joshi
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.
~ Kit Williams
Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.
~ Georg Solti
A scientist should be the happiest of men.
~ George Wald
There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
~ Loren Eiseley
Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.
~ Poul Anderson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.
~ Richard Ellmann
One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'
~ Adam Ferrara
The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.
~ Archibald MacLeish
I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.
~ Mac Barnett
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
~ Margaret Mead
After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.
~ Maria V. Snyder
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.
~ Mark Twain
If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man
~ Norman Whiteside
Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
~ Herman Melville
Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
~ Karl Kraus
Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
In love, each man is his own personal challenge.
~ Leo Buscaglia