Quotes About Discovery

You've got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don't work...

We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

The child will reveal himself through work.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

You've got to find what you love.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

I work only with lost and founds.

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do - my plan in life - was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high... smoke dope. And that's really what I'm doing.

Some think that solar work is pretty well played out. In reality, it is only beginning.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.