Quotes About Discovery

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.

It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

My only strength is finding something where most people would find nothing.

...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

The soul's steps are greater than the heart's leaps.

There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself. You may (possibly) all live to thank me yet.

When you push yourself beyond limits, you discover inner reserves, which you never thought existed earlier.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.