Quotes About Discovery

The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs.

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.