Quotes About Discovery

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Everything that astonished me when I was young astonishes me even more today. The time will never come for me when there are no more discoveries to make. Every morning the world is as new again and I will not cease to flower except through death.

A good book is a portal that will take you anywhere in the world.

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

She was constantly surprising him. Siri went over and held up Mr. A's hand. All the fingertips were purple: triplicate syndrome.

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew): Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. (RUDYARD KIPLING)

I know that in life I shall never find anything beyond what I have found; thou thyself knowest not that thou art hoping yet continually, and seeking.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

You will not discover the limits of the soul by traveling, even if you wander over every conceivable path, so deep is its story.

Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.

The soul is undiscovered though explored forever to a depth beyond report.

One would never discover the limits of soul, should one traverse every road so deep a measure does it possess

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

I went in search of myself.

Whoever cannot seek the unforseen, sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

title of many of his books and ultimately his autobiography: Models of Man (1957), Models of Discovery (1977), Models of Thought (1979 and 1989), Models of Bounded Rationality (1982), and Models of My Life (1991).

Returning home on the evening of his engagement he had bewildered Mrs. Tims by seizing her as she stood in front of the kitchen-stove, a frying-pan full of sausages in her hand, and waltzing her round the kitchen, frying-pan and all. Subsequently five of the six sausages had been recovered; but the sixth was not retrieved until the next morning when, in dusting, Mrs. Tims discovered it on the mantelpiece.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man upon his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region…. Meditation and water are wedded forever.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the viper whose sting is destined to poison all their joys.