Quotes About Discovery

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

The more you look, the more you will see.

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

May books and nature be their early joy!

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

Learning is by nature, curiosity.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

If you go out and watch nature closely, you will find something so joyful that it will completely fill you.

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.