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Quotes About Discovery

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.
~ Richard Ernst
We shall not cease from exploration
~ T. S. Eliot
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
~ Ivan Doig
I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.
~ Albert Einstein
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
~ Aristotle
The study of nature is a limitless field, the most fascinating adventure in the world.
~ Margaret Morse Nice
It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.
~ Bonnie Bassler
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.
~ Douglas Lenat
I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.
~ Fernando Perez
As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.
~ Jan Hunt
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.
~ Jacob Bronowski
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
~ James Clavell
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
~ Paul Cezanne
When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.
~ Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.
~ Van Day Truex
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
~ James A. Garfield
I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
~ Wayne Knight
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
~ William Wordsworth
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
~ Kenneth G. Wilson
I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.
~ Lupe Fiasco