Quotes About Discovery

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.

I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the immanence of all living things in each other, for the attraction of life for its likeness. A time will come, he had said to the girls, when you too will discover what this word karuna means, and from that moment on, your lives will never again be the same.

But if it were true that his life had somehow been molded by acts of power of which he was unaware—then it would follow that he had never acted of his own volition; never had a moment of true self-consciousness. Everything he had ever assumed about himself was a lie, an illusion. And if this were so, how was he to find himself now?

books that Uncle bought in Odessa or acquired in Heidelberg, books that he discovered in Lausanne or found in Berlin or Warsaw, books he ordered from America and books the like of which exist nowhere but in the Vatican Library, in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, classical and modern Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, medieval Arabic, Russian, English, German, Spanish, Polish, French, Italian, and languages and dialects I had never even heard of, like Ugaritic and Slovene, Maltese and Old Church Slavonic.

It was late December 1938, and since then I have never been abroad, except maybe in my thoughts. And I shall never go. It's not because the Land of Israel is so wonderful, it's because I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.

When you discover something long after others have known it, there is a heady contentment that comes.

Being yourself seems like the most effortless thing in the world—duh, who else are you going to be? But it's deceiving, tricky, a summons laden with meandering and failed attempts—and then at last, so wondrously simple.

It can neither be concealed nor overstated: These types of things genuinely interest and delight me. One small wordplay discovery—say, figuring out that an anagram for maker is me, AKR—will make my whole day.

To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei