Quotes About Discovery

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.