Quotes About Discovery

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Man cannot discover new oceans (high sea) unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.'

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Who seeks may find, who lives may learn, who loves is blessed.

Was there no end to this aimless circling through a world of green smoke? He

He discovered that lack of sight confuses the ear.

Frontiers of any type, physical or mental, are but a challenge to our breed. Nothing can stop the questing of men, not even Man. If we will it, not only the wonders of space, but the very stars are ours!

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

What was true love, anyway? What did the fabric of it feel like? Rough? Smooth? Velvety soft? Would she recognize it immediately, or would she have to browse awhile? Would true love fit her perfectly or be like a store-bought gown in need a alterations?

Magari uno rimpiange di aver perso qualcosa, e l'ha perso solo per trovare qualcosa di meglio.

we all just figure this out as we go along. There's no textbook, there's no rules, there's no right way to love her. You just feel what you feel, you just love her the only way you know how.

Paved with gold, no - but, yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain

You think you've uncovered a great mystery. You have no idea. You haven't even scratched the surface of the history of the Empire.

The greatest journey in life you will undertake is the one for self awareness. Finding out who you are and what you stand for.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny.… " —Author and former biochemistry professor Isaac Asimov

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In the school library there's an old Book Week poster that says 'Get Lost in a Book.' Well, we do that. We lose ourselves in books for hours and hours—books about all kinds of people and tons of different places. Then we come back, and we bring things with us. When we get lost like that, I think we find all kinds of cool stuff.

We are the unknown, he says, and you will join us.

These day's I like to imagine that if a man were to enter through the slash on the book's cover, as if it were a door, he could walk right into the heart of the Inferno.

Typee was Melville's version of this American dream—not the dream of raising one's status in the world as it is, but the dream of starting over, getting out from under, and putting it all away to discover life anew. 6.

This is one of the reasons science has made such dramatic progress. An undergraduate science major today knows more about science and math than did Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most renowned scientists who ever lived. Even in this introductory astronomy course, you will learn about objects and processes that no one a few generations ago even dreamed existed.