Quotes About Discovery

stories are everywhere, just waiting to be found...

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

All genuine learning comes through experience.

Education is life itself.

wonder is the mother of all science.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one's true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

Leonardo virtually announced the birth of the method of modern science when he said that true knowledge begins with opinion.

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

O my America! my new-found land.

And now good morrow to our waking souls,Which watch not one another out of fear;For love, all love of other sights controls,And makes one little room, an everywhere.Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

Teach me to hear mermaids singing

How blest am I in this discovering thee! To enter in these bonds is to be free; Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be. Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be

I joy, that in these straits I see my west;

Every woman is a science; for he that plods upon a woman all his life long, shall at length finde himself short of the knowledge of her.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

You wouldn't be here if you didn't want to write, so let's write. We'll chat later. Get out your pen and paper or fire up the computer. Pour yourself a coffee. Unplug the phone. Once you start, you can't stop. Give yourself a half hour. Relax. Don't think too much. You're starting a journey, and you don't know where you're going. But you do know you're going someplace you haven't been before.

But almost from the beginning, Vallee's special ability as a talent scout came to the fore. He plucked Alice Faye out of the chorus in George White's Scandals and sent her to vocal and film stardom. He found Frances Langford singing on a small station in Florida. Beatrice Lillie, Milton Berle, and Phil Baker got their first major radio exposure on the Vallee show.

and go look and see the book was missing from that back room.