logo

Quotes About Discovery

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.
~ Charles H. Townes
People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.
~ Helen Sharman
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.
~ Mary Roach
Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
~ Adam Cohen
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
~ Richard Dawkins
The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
~ Samuel Smiles
I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.
~ Tadeusz Borowski
I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!
~ J.R. Ward
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
~ A. C. Benson
My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.
~ Michael Weatherly
When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you find out who you are, you're screwed.
~ Jonathan Winters
"It's uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there."
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Love makes your soul crawl out of it's hiding place
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. They're the best moments in a day of writing -- when an image appears that you didn't know would be there when you started work in the morning.
~ zusak markus iii
Thrown into a vast open sea with no navigation charts and all the marker buoys sunk and barely visible, we have only two choices left: we may rejoice in the breath-taking vistas of new discoveries -- or we may tremble out of fear of drowning.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Las palabras, pronunciadas o tipiadas ya no luchan por consignar el viaje de descubrimiento espiritual. Tal como lo expresó admirablemente Chris Moss (en el Guardian Weekend),[11] por medio de "el chat por Internet, los teléfonos móviles, los mensajes de texto", "la introspección es reemplazada por una interacción frenética y frívola que expone nuestros secretos más profundos al lado de nuestra lista de compras.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
~ A.A. Milne
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
~ A.A. Milne
I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
~ A.A. Milne
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
~ A.A. Milne
We are thus offered a fundamental and joyfully liberating release from our addiction to searching for love from outside, by realizing the truth that the most powerful experience of love is available within us, simply waiting for us to discover it. And it is in our own souls that love moves us toward our deepest nature, acting as the fuel for unfoldment and revelation and dissolving what separates us from the truth of what we are.
~ A.H. Almaas
The fact is that there are many skeletons in the Tower's cupboard.
~ A.J. Pollard