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Quotes About Discovery

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
~ A. R. Ammons
Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.
~ Carly Simon
The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It's time we build a rocket and go to stay.
~ Chris Hadfield
Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings.
~ David Archuleta
A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's a very exciting time.
~ Dick Rutan
When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.
~ Dana Gould
In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.
~ Maria Sibylla Merian
You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.
~ Maureen Johnson
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
~ May Sarton
Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
~ Mort Walker
You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space
~ Natasha Trethewey
Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).
~ Eric Lander
America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world.
~ James Smith McDonnell
I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.
~ Ville Valo
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.
~ William Cowper
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
~ Deepak Chopra
My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
~ Steven Spielberg
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
~ Aidan Chambers
I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
~ Alan Jackson
Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'
~ Andy Borowitz
You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
~ Barry Levinson