Quotes About Discovery

"I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me."

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

We in middle age require adventure.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.