Quotes About Discovery

books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic.

I cleared my throat and found my voice then, like a coin suddenly in your pocket that'd been missing when last you looked for it. Ernesto's

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.

Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to see something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore around it, and before you know it,something worth thinking about to occupy your mind.

Somehow, by some accident, he had been lost on a planet that was not his own.

The anger that rose in him was a new thing.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

Intrepid then, o'er seas and lands he flew: Europe he saw, and Europe saw him too.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.

While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!

Simone W eil has said that though a person may run as fast as he can away from Christ, if it is toward what he considers true, he runs in fact straight into the arms of Christ. Much

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Books are a finer world within our world.

There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Kühner, als das Unbekannte zu erforschen, kann es sein, das Bekannte zu bezweifeln.

What we glean from travellers' vivid descriptions has a special charm; whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination; such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life.

The secret of keeping a journal is seeing it as a draft, a stepping-stone, a process.

consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late

But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore ...

Because you will meet somebody more exceptional than anyone you have ever know. Who will love you warmly as possible. And who will so completely attract you that you will feel you never really loved before.

That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.