Quotes About Discovery

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." -

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.

the recent discovery that your habits and emotions can impact your biology so deeply that it causes changes in the genes that are transmitted to the next several generations.

Later! What an astonishing idea. What a powerful concept. What a fabulous discovery.

Unfortunately, even big ideas leave no fossils for carbon dating

The world is much bigger than you thought

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

The quality of the problem that is found is a forerunner of the quality of the solution that is attained. It is in fact the discovery and creation of problems rather than any superior knowledge, technical skill, or craftsmanship, that often sets the creative person apart from others in his field.

Taking a Sagmeister," as I now call it, requires a fair bit of planning and saving, of course. But doesn't forgoing that big-screen TV seem a small price to pay for an unforgettable—and un-get-backable—year of personal exploration?

In those situations, the ability to move others hinges less on problem solving than on problem finding.

Today, they must be good at asking questions—uncovering possibilities, surfacing latent issues, and finding unexpected problems.

Cognitive neuroscientists at Drexel and Northwestern universities have found that the flashes of insight that precede "Aha!" moments are accompanied by a large burst of neural activity in the brain's right hemisphere

The Tinkering School. More of a lab than a school, this summer program, created by computer scientist Gever Tulley, lets children from seven to seventeen play around with interesting stuff and build cool things.

To reprise language from the previous chapter, the solution isn't algorithmic (following a set path) but heuristic (breaking from the path to discover a novel strategy).

One of the most effective ways of moving others is to uncover challenges they may not know they have.

A little kid's life bursts with autotelic experiences.

It is in fact the discovery and creation of problems rather than any superior knowledge, technical skill, or craftsmanship that often sets the creative person apart from others in his field."8

writing is an act of discovering what you think and what you believe

The guy who invented the wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius." —SID CAESAR

The road ain't even marked. Home don't have to be.

A little bit of self-experimentation never hurt anybody, except when it did.

We search for the ordinary when we are surrounded by the extraordinary.

A deeper truth exists, waiting to be found... inviting me to go every direction at once, and none.