Quotes About Discovery

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

Ignorance follows knowledge, not the other way around.

Ten lands are sooner known than one man.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

He has to come to it on his own.