Quotes About Discovery

We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

What you have to do is just walk into the light. Then you find that it doesn't burn, and it's not particular frightening.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.

I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?

I went to look for a used car and found my wife's dress in the back seat.

The worst job I ever had was as a forensicologist for the United Nations. One time I thought I'd come across the mass grave of a thousand snowmen, but it turns out it was just a field of carrots.

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze 'em?