Quotes About Discovery

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

All progress is experimental.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true.

God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow.

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.