Quotes About Discovery

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: "Adventures are to the adventurous."

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

In the field of knowledge is all possibility.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.