Quotes About Discovery

William Shakespeare

This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

William Sleator

It is a curious fact that men who know nothing of each other tend to work in the same direction at the same time. Darwin and Wallace, Mendel and de Vries.

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

Durant tota la joventut t'he estat buscant sense saber què buscava.

Mysteries are for solving, walls are for climbing, secret hideouts are for exploring. That's just how things are.

University of Life. Year One - Advance Adventure Playgrounds. Part One Exam - go to the Third World and survive. No revision, interest, intellect or sensitivity required.

just as twenty years ago, everyone knew John Colter and Jim Bridger.

Horace Pendergast, originally from Cairo, Illinois.

success for adult learners boils down to just one key factor: adventurousness.

the golden pathway to learning, not just in music but in anything in life, is through one's own, individual, honest mistakes.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

If we seek and keep on seeking, we will find; if we ask and keep on asking, we will receive; if we knock and keep on knocking, the door to truth will be opened. How can we refuse an offer like this?

The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop.

Where the statue stoodOf Newton with his prism and silent face,The marble index of a mind foreverVoyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

I traveled among unknown men,In lands beyond the sea;Nor, England! did I know till thenWhat love I bore to thee.