Quotes About Discovery

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.

So much history buried underneath. We spend our lives to try to dig it out, but always the present buries it again.

And what they found was something no one had ever seen before." "What's that?" "Well, no one had ever seen it, so it didn't have a name.

Authenticity is a continual process of building self-awareness, a journey through which we acknowledge both our strengths and our limitations, and come to identify a noble purpose.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

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The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

Friedrich Nietzsche said, "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Noticing that something is broken is an essential prerequisite for coming up with a creative solution to fix

There is so much more than we can see, there is so much more that we can be.

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired... Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

He says that all that happens when you go far, far away is that you discover you've brought yourself along.

One does not know love until it arrives, and it's arrival will always surprise.

The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads...

A place where they could be people they never dreamed they'd be.

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

Looking for who I am is who I am.

There is no hope of any major increase in scientific knowledge by grafting or adding the new on top of the old," Bacon declared in his book The New Logic, published in 1620. "The restoration of the sciences must start from the bottom-most foundations—unless we prefer to go round in perpetual circles at a contemptibly slow rate.

Walking through a town can be like flicking through a picture book.

Children, in a very real sense, have beginners' minds, open to wider possibilities. They see the world with fresher eyes, are less burdened with preconception and past experience, and are less guided by what they know to be true. They are more likely to pick up details that adults might discard as irrelevant. Because they're less concerned with being wrong or looking foolish, children often ask questions that adults won't ask.