Quotes About Discovery

The man of many shifts, who wandered far and wide, And towns of many saw, and learned their mind; And suffered much in heart by land and sea, Passing through wars of men and grievous waves.

He released something elemental in her, some primitive force she hadn't even been aware of until he came along. It was frightening, in a way, but it was also exhilarating and incredibly exciting. And the jungle, steamy and frought with hidden dangers, seemed the perfect setting for their coming together.

Do you know what a tre vie is, Juliana?

this country is so new to us and so old to the world, and its emptiness should have been a warning rather than an invitation—

The excitement that science possess is its ability to answer the big questions.

To be a true explorer in science—to follow the unprejudiced lead of pure scientific inquiry—is to be unafraid to propose the unthinkable, and to prove friends, colleagues, and scientific paradigms wrong.

Robert Goddard, the father of American rocket science,

The remarkable discoveries of these scientists suggested

They looked for one another when nothing else was happening, the way you pick up a magazine or look in the cupboard for a snack. Not exactly by accident and not exactly on purpose. You could go out in the world and do new things and meet new people, and then you could come home and just sit on the stoop with someone you had never not known, and watch lightning bugs blink on and off.

I tried to think whether I had ever had a great adventure. I decided that I had. It's all in how you look at it.

But there are, I was learning, different landscapes in the country of love.

Lynne Reid Banks

Indian and everything else, away. So Omri had had to keep it secret, and

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

Before 1802, cirrus, cumulus, and altostratus clouds hadn't been given names. Untitled before 1802, the shapes were present in the sky, ethereal or ephemeral, presumably since the big bang, but un-designated, until they needed to be. Why then? The world hasn't been fully seen, until it is named.

but place is unimportant to a traveler, if that's what I can be called. If it were important, people couldn't bear to move on.

Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.

Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.

Every time I took a step outside my comfort zone, I grew spiritually. I discovered God's plan and stopped operating within the limitations of my own experiences. And I discovered a powerful truth along the way: When we take calculated risks, we discover God-given talents and facets of our personality waiting to be developed.

Feeling unglued is really all I've ever known. And I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's all I'll ever be.

With that said, maybe it's time to release back to God what we can't change so we can discover what He has for us now.

What if we could actually get to the place where we thanked God for letting us face this battle because of the rich treasures we discovered on the battlefield?

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.