Quotes About Discovery

took the inchworm off my shoulder and put it on Sally's pillow to see how she'd react.

Chapter Fifteen

The human mind does, in fact, contain vast expanses that few of us ever discover.

Curiosity is straight fire for creativity.

Curiosity is straight fire for creativity. By exploring, you bring insights and inspiration to imagination.

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

I was used to hiding magazines inside my Bible so I'd have something to read during Father's sermons. I never would have dreamed that someday I'd be doing it the other way around.

Did you ever stop to consider the person who first discovered milk? It took a lot of nerve to be the first man to pull on a cow's nipple and drink whatever came out.

All of a sudden the world opened up and it's doing it again now. In this garden there are so many stories, so many other problems besides mine.

Meeting new people feels like dating. I try to find someone I like, casually start a conversation, and hope we have things in common.

Sometimes two people need to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

To bring back riches from the East you must bring riches with you.

Pleasure is seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

Travelling! Young men travelling! I cannot, my dear, but think it a very nonsensical thing! What can they see, but the ruins of the gay, once busy world, of which they have read? To see a parcel of giddy boys, under the direction of tutors, or governors, hunting after — What? — Nothing; or at best but ruins of ruins; for the imagination, aided by reflection, must be lest, after all, to make out the greater glories which the grave-digger Time has buried too deep for discovery.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it could furnish him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, or ornaments, or play-withs, but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

Recent study of beetle digestive tracts has found more than 650 distinct yeasts, at least 200 of which were previously unidentified

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