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Quotes About Discovery

We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.
~ Edgar Mitchell
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
~ Mark Twain
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
~ John Locke
One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
~ Albert Einstein
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
~ Rita Dove
Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.
~ Gertrude Jekyll
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth
~ Christopher Wren
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
~ Emperor Hirohito
When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.
~ Arthur Rubinstein
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
~ Max Ernst
The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing.
~ Jean Malaquais
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
~ Craig Raine
Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.
~ Gene Cernan
I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
~ Umberto Guidoni
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
~ Josh Billings
Star Trek says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.
~ Gene Roddenberry
Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going.
~ Penelope Trunk
Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
~ W. S. Merwin
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
~ Miles Davis
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
~ Nikola Tesla
The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.
~ Swami Satchidananda