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Quotes About Discovery

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
~ Gary Larson
The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].
~ Yang Liwei
Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.
~ Truman Capote
All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.
~ Steve Case
Great moments await around every corner.
~ Richard DeVos
We learn of great things by little experiences.
~ Bram Stoker
Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
~ Yehuda Amichai
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.
~ Stephen Coonts
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
~ Marie Corelli
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
~ Lewis Carroll
One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.
~ Dick Vitale
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
~ Christopher Columbus
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
~ Paul Valery
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.
~ Richard Bach
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
~ Arthur H. Compton
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
~ Joanna Lumley
As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.
~ Noel Gallagher
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
You shall become the person you are.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.
~ John Farrar
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
~ George Chapman
I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.
~ Harrison Salisbury