Quotes About Discovery

but they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

He invited me to a world that wasn't secret, but it was well hidden. You needed a guide. You had to know what to look for, but also how to look. You had to exert yourself to see this world." p 224

She drew others to her like acolytes only for them to discover she wasn't recruiting.

to think that before Pasteur's discovery of microbes, doctors fought duels over the merits of balsam of Peru versus tar oil for wound infection. Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. Still, each generation of physicians imagined that ignorance was the special provenance of their elders.

Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

He invited me to a world that wasn't secret, but it was well hidden. You needed a guide. You had to know what to look for, but also how to look. You had to exert yourself to see this world. But if you did, if you had that kind of curiosity, if you had an innate interest in the welfare of your fellow human beings, and if you went through that door, a strange thing happened: you left your petty troubles on the threshold. It could be addictive.

The voyage of discovery is not about new lands, but having new eyes.

You can't really stop going places because you're frightened.

These look they'll be useful on a future Quest!

My first car was a motorcycle.

There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.

Becoming Original is not the easiest path in the Pursuit of Happiness, but it leaves us perfectly poised for the Happiness of Pursuit.

I'm still struggling to accept that Pluto may not be a planet.

Uncertainty primes us to ask questions and absorb new ideas.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new

Search for yourself, and you will discover over the long haul just contempt, depression, hopelessness, wrath, destroy, and rot. Be that as it may, search for Christ, and you will discover Him, and with Him everything else tossed in.

Not long afterward they found her like that and one of them lifted her and carried her across the snow to the group of vehicles.

Confidence. That's the word that came to mind, one that I would never before have used to describe any part of my life.

What I want to say is that we still don't know each other, that we're still discovering each other, and of course because it's no longer the beginning it isn't always, or even mostly, a romantic proposition--the not knowing, the wanting to know--but there is the wanting. Certainly there are times when I think maybe it's one-sided, that he knows just about all of me that he cares to, and that I'm the one who's still deciphering, which can be its own source of resentment.

Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europeans really noticed this art. Its discovery then had a strong influence on Braque, Matisse, and Picasso.