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Quotes About Discovery

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
~ Stephen Hawking
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
~ Thomas Huxley
I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
~ Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.
~ Timothy Keller
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.
~ Simon Newcomb
What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.
~ John H. Johnson
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
~ Bertrand Russell
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
~ Robert Lynd
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
~ Adrian Bejan
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
~ John Locke
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
~ Thomas A. Edison
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
~ Charles Baudelaire
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
~ Ronald Fisher
Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.
~ Brian Tracy
Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
~ William Gilbert
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
~ Hosea Ballou
What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.
~ Kim Cattrall
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.
~ Thomas C Foster
"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."
~ Denis Waitley
There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.
~ janet asimov
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
~ Terence McKenna