Quotes About Discovery

Surprised, Kirsty peered at the conveyor

I knew from experience that this statement was true, for I myself had been searching for years to discover a practical, working handbook on human relations.

The ability to read opened up a new and magic world for him, a world he had never dreamed of before. It changed him. It broadened his horizon and gave him vision; and, for a quarter of a century, reading remained the dominant passion of his life.

called Forest Park—and it was a forest, probably not much different in appearance from what it was when Columbus discovered America. I frequently walked in this park with Rex, my little Boston bulldog. He was a friendly, harmless little hound; and since we rarely

Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

During my last year in college I discovered that I was picking up the mannerisms of Akim Tamiroff, the only useful thing, in fact, that I learned in the entire four years.

The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't need a drink. It became possible to stand still in the dark under the oaks, hands at my sides, and watch and wait.

A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery.

Am I, in my search, a hundred miles ahead of my fellow Americans or a hundred miles behind them? That is to say: Have 98% of Americans already found what I seek or are they so sunk in everydayness that not even the possibility of a search has occurred to them?

It has taken me all these years to make the simplest discovery: that I am surrounded by two classes of maniacs. The first are the believers, who think they know the reason why we find ourselves in this ludicrous predicament yet act for all the world as if they don't. The second are the unbelievers, who don't know the reason and don't care if they don't.

Francis Crick, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA, believes that DNA could only have arrived from space, sent in the form of bacteria from more advanced civilizations.

Genius lies not in making the great discoveries, but in seeing the connections between the smaller ones...

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

What if I don't like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.

I'd gone to her directly from Dr. Shaw's office - gone without an appointment to find out if happiness was a football you caught or something more complicated, something you had to invent.

He who goes questing for what he wants may discover, along the way, what he needs.

Don't write stories for teenagers or any other group," she advised. "Write them for yourself and let the audience that needs them find them.

What if I don't like adventure?" I said. Ruth dragged over a kitchen chair and sat down facing me. "Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?

Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.