Quotes About Discovery

We cannot teach people anything we can only help them discover it within themselves.

A man who reads will find himself.

Regardless of how far we have come, we are still looking for answers.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

I think nerdy stuff is sexy. I like to watch the History Channel and learn about the universe, quantum physics and stuff like that.