Quotes About Discovery

The fact that data is always evolving is a good thing. It means that science is continuing, and we are always learning.

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

It was not so much that a door opened as that I suddenly found that a door had been open all along which I had only just then stumbled upon.

The writers who get my personal award are the ones who show exceptional promise of looking at their lives in this world as candidly and searchingly and feelingly as they know how and then of telling the rest of us what they have found there most worth finding. We need the eyes of writers like that to see through. We need the blood of writers like that in our veins.

There is treasure buried in the field of every one of our days, even the bleakest or dullest, and it is our business, as we journey, to keep our eyes peeled for it.

The sadness was I'd lost a father I had never fully found. It's like a tune ends before you've heard it out. Your whole life through you search to catch the strain, and seek the face you've lost in strangers' faces.

The sadness was I'd lost a father I had never fully found. It's like a tune that ends before you've heard it out. Your whole life through you search to catch the strain, and seek the face you've lost in strangers' faces.

People are prepared for everything except for the fact that beyond the darkness of their blindness there is a great light. They are prepared to go on breaking their backs plowing the same old field until the cows come home without seeing, until they stub their toes on it, that there is a treasure buried in that field rich enough to buy Texas.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

Men talk much of a new birth. The fact is fundamental. But the mistake is in treating it as an incident which can only happen to a man once in a lifetime: whereas the whole journey of life is a succession of them. A new life springs up in the soul with the discovery of every new agency by which the soul is raised to a higher level of wisdom: goodness and joy.

I have often been asked how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not give a more satisfactory answer. A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath and the "quick round of blood," I lived more in that one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe.

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

What you seek is close by and rises to meet you.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

Wohl bin ich ein Wald und eine Nacht dunkler Bäume: doch wer sich vor meinem Dunkel nicht scheut, der findet auch Rosenhänge unter meinen Zypressen.