Quotes About Discovery

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

I started out alone to seek adventures. You don't really have to seek themthat is nothing but a phrasethey come to you.

I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spiritual and cultural heritage undreamed of by earlier generations.

We have to know who we are before we can know what our interests are.

So howled out for the world to give him a name. The indark answered with wind.

I heard Bellona was where it was at. It must be, now. I'm here.

Inside the Mouse, surprise opened like a wound over the inevitable.

There is so much you don't see. You walk around in a world with holes in it; you stumble into them; and get hurt.

Look, when you come up short against the edge like that, when you discover the earth really is round, when you find out you've killed your father and married your mother after all, or when you look at the horizon and see something, like that, rising — man, you have to have some sort of human reaction: laugh, cry, sing, something! You can't just lie down and take a nap.

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Dry wells send us to the fountain.

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,The furrow followed free;We were the first that ever burstInto that silent sea.

Is this the hill? is this the kirk?Is this mine own countree?

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.