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Quotes About Discovery

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?
~ Robert Jordan
When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.
~ Stephen Sondheim
It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
~ Tom Stoppard
Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!
~ Lil B
Each moment is a place you've never been.
~ Mark Strand
Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.
~ Paulo Coelho
You're always working at the margin of what you don't understand, that's the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.
~ Emmet Gowin
What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?
~ Hermann Hesse
A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.
~ Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.
~ Lillian Russell
There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.
~ Alan Shepard
My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.
~ Billy Crudup
My wonder button is being pushed all the time.
~ Carl Sagan
It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.
~ Dan Wells
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
~ David Hockney
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
~ Sylvia Earle
Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.
~ Taylor Swift
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
~ William James
In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.
~ Xenophanes
When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.
~ George Harrison
We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.
~ Jamie Hyneman
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
~ John Coltrane
We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
~ John Lehman