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Quotes About Discovery

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
I long to set foot where no man has trod before.
~ Charles Darwin
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!
~ Constance Reid
Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.
~ David Suchet
Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.
~ Galileo Galilei
I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.
~ Aaron Staton
In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.
~ Aldous Huxley
It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.
~ Alice Hoffman
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
~ Anatole France
He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.
~ Anthony Horowitz
The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.
~ Arthur Koestler
What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.
~ Benjamin Franklin
All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.
~ Bertrand Russell
Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.
~ Bill Bryson
Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?
~ Bill Watterson
How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?
~ Bob Dylan
The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
~ Bruno Rossi
America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.
~ Buzz Aldrin
A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.
~ C.S. Friedman
Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.
~ Candace Bushnell
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
~ Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.
~ Chad Smith