Quotes About Discovery

provides a powerful way to awaken to your life's purpose,

William Buhlman

He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet.

I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...

I have discovered that most ofthe beauties of travel are due tothe strange hours we keep to see them.

They enter the new world naked,cold, uncertain of allsave that they enter.

Then back to the party!and they maledand femaled you jealouslyBeautiful Thingas if to discover whence andby what miraclethere should escape, what?

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. (Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays)

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

Science demands patience.

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run and often in the short one the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

You never know what you can do till you try.

I have always wanted to know why, wherever archaeologists dig, do they always find red and white poles?

Three things alone are certain when you venture into a loft: that you will crack your head on a beam at least twice, that you will get cobwebs draped over your face, and that you will not find what you went looking for.

Crossing the Black Water

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

This afternoon I was sitting quietly with some twenty roughs when I noticed a sudden hush come over the room. I glanced nervously round and observed that forty pairs of eyes were on me...I was reading a book. They had never seen someone read a book before. They were like natives watching a white man shave.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

I've always subconsciously looked out for the total Christian and when I found him he turned out to be a non-practicing Jew.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

I felt the weight of unmapped worlds, unborn language.