Quotes About Discovery

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

I am searching for my feelings through shelves of dusty books can't help but feel I've left them in some forgotten ancient nooks as if an author long before me captured my emotions in his day and saved them in fine poetry for future me to find someway

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Poetry touches upon the entire spectrum, from lost to found — and sometimes back again.

But somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild-goose chase; that is what wild geese are made for.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

If you treat the unknown as a minefield and never enter, you may avoid getting blasted but won't ever get to run along with the butterflies.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science...

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of Nature.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."

The treasure of self is buried under the rainbow and yet glows beyond the sun.

I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.

Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

The best parts of life can come unplanned.

We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.

People are not always what they seem.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Der Blick, des Forschers fand nicht selten mehr, als er zu finden wünschte.