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Quotes About Discovery

I'd like to THANK whoever saw a bunch of cherries and thought....HEY!! If I dry out a bunch of those berry seeds, call them "BEANS", smash them and add hot water, it will be AWESOME!
~ Tanya Masse
I stumbled up the hill back toward the Hab. As I crested the rise, I saw something that made me very happy and something that made me very sad: The Hab was intact (yay!) and the MAV was gone (boo!).
~ Andy Weir, The Martian
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~ The Fabulous Bookwormzillas!
Are you telling me Kara Orris is afraid of rain?" Hunter's grin twisted into a smirk as his eyes lit up, relishing his new discovery with absolute delight. "Why, that's adorable!
~ Katherine McIntyre, Snatched
Have you ever been at a point that you don't know what to say? But yet you came up with this crazy idea to type this.
~ Eric Mayes
Charter boats are like books with no covers.
~ Tania Aebi
I never knew, apes talk. Apparently, you do.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One
~ Carol Anshaw
Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
~ Susan Orlean
... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.
~ Eleanor Porter
All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.
~ G. H. Hardy
When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate only where they became fossilized.
~ Richard Leakey
I'm not looking and I don't go hunting. I'm the type who's got to be found.
~ Jeremy Brett
To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.
~ Sara Sheridan
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
~ Josh Billings
I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.
~ Stanley Kramer
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
~ Thomas A. Edison
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."
~ Max Planck
They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.
~ G. H. Hardy
Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.
~ Charles F. Haanel
Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts
~ Carl Sagan
The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.
~ Wim Wenders
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.
~ Rebecca Solnit