Quotes About Discovery

Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace "Camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

Buscando lo que deseo voy perdiendo el deseo de lo que busco.

Per conoscere un luogo non è sempre necessario esserci stati.

The doubt has the mysterious power to bring out the hidden reality of life.

As we were coming up again, we met with some Indians of strange aspects, that is, of a larger size, and other sort of features, than those of our country. Our Indian slaves, that rowed us, asked them some questions, but they could not understand us, but showed us a long cotton string, with several knots on it, and told us, they had been coming from the mountains so many moons as there were knots.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

Whilst we knew what we had suffered and risked better than any one else, we also knew that science takes no account of such things; that a man is no better for having made the worst journey in the world; and that whether he returns alive or drops by the way will be all the same a hundred years hence if his records and specimens come safely to hand.

We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.

Five men went forward, Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Seaman Evans. They reached the Pole on January 17 to find that Amundsen had reached it thirty-four days earlier. They returned 721 statute miles and perished 177 miles from their winter quarters.

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion

A poor man will be poor until the day he discovers that thinking doesn't cost anything.

We were the first that found that famous country:We marched by a king's name: we crossed the sierras:Unknown hardships we suffered: hunger.

Eureka! [I have found it!]

Either of my contemporaries or of my successors, will, by means of the method when once established, be able to discover other theorems in addition, which have not yet occurred to me.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

Imagine standing in a room in a large museum. As you look around the dimly lit gallery, you begin to recognize shapes: a basket, an arrow, a beautifully decorated carving, a shield. Some of the objects are unrecognizable to you. What if these objects could speak? What would they tell you about themselves? How have they been used? Where did they come from? How did they get to this museum? Whom do they belong to?

Each of them had been looking for a way out of their own black midnights, and each of them still had a long way to go until they found some kind of dawn.

Honest error may play prologue to wonders.