Quotes About Discovery

If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind (Chapter 65,p. 68)

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge.

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge. -V6

Majorian presents a welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honour of the human species.

I do like rocks. I had a terrible trauma this week: I didn't know what had become of my favorite rock. And I thought, Oh my God, I can't live. Fortunately, it was found.

And Star Trek is not an action TV series. It's about a lot more than that

We expected to find aliens who were different from us, really different. We didn't expect to find aliens who are very similar with some striking differences. It has us off balance'.

New Orleans is a city you must visit when you're young and foolish but return to when you're wiser and still searching for your dreams.

This ain't no Bigfoot. It's the Bighead! The Bighead is back!

You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering.

Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.

Why is it that when you lose something, it is always in the last place that you look for it? Because of course, once you remember, you always stop looking.

Where no man has gone before - who said that - William Shakespeare?" "I've no idea.

That we wouldn't be able to do. Not even if we wanted it more than anything in the world. Because once we've touched a world, it stays touched.

pride and vain-glory are the most dangerous of all vices, and that they are the most difficult to be discovered, and the last that are vanquished in the spiritual warfare; that humility is the very foundation of all true virtue, and our progress in it the measure of our advancement in Christian perfection.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.

"There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom"