Quotes About Discovery

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

Faraday was asked: "What is the use of this discovery?" He answered: "What is the use of a child - it grows to be a man.

Everything of importance has already been seen by someone who did not discover it.

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Some spent years undermining Pfeiffer's theory, and others—among them many of the most brilliant scientists of the era—took off after other alleged villains, spending untold thousands of man-hours in the crucially important but thankless task of proving themselves wrong.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world of his own, apart, and believes that one day he'll come across, either in a book or in a person, the Priest who shall make it clear to him.

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

in the Cheddar Gorge area of Somerset, revealed that these Britons were far from the light-skinned, straight- and fair-haired humans that they had been supposed to be.

Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it.

I fall in love. More figuratively speaking, I am walking along the road one day when out of nowhere I am struck by lightning.

She had entered him like he was water. Like he was a dictionary and she was a word he hadn't known was in him. Or she had entered him more simply, like he was a door and she opened him, leaving him standing ajar as she walked straight in.

I don't know, her mother says. I don't know much about it. It was quite hard to find out anything. But I'm finding it quite enjoyable, not knowing.

Yeah, but the thing I particularly like about the word but, now that I think about it, is that it always takes you off to the side, and where it takes you is always interesting.

She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.