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Quotes About Discovery

All of our lives are important, even the parts of our past that we have ignored, downplayed, or forgotten. If we open the door to our past, we will discover God there, accompanying us in both happy and sad moments.
~ James J. Martin
search of traces of the ancient past—and fine dark chocolate.
~ James J. O'Donnell
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
~ James Joyce
Mistakes are the portals for discovery.
~ James Joyce
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
~ James Joyce
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
~ James Joyce
Physics is not about having memorized all the answers, but rather about asking the right questions. For when the right question is posed of a phenomenon, either the answer becomes clear or at least a path to further and more fruitful questioning is revealed.
~ James Kakalios
than meets the eye! 79 Don't worry, Fearless Reader—he was framed and eventually demonstrated his innocence. 80 I don't want to tell them their jobs, but if I were an astronomer, I'd keep my eye on Planet X. I think it might be trouble. 81 Primarily because it
~ James Kakalios
As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.
~ James Kennedy
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.
~ James L. Framo
sometimes it worked better to just do a thing and see what happened, rather than thinking it through to exhaustion.
~ James L. Nelson
There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.
~ James Laughlin
He reached down, pulled on a piece of seaweed and came up with a handful of gleaming white shells, shook off the water and tossed them on to the sandy bank. I attempted to do likewise, and came up with a handful of slime and a few broken bits of twig, one of which had a tiny but very angry-looking crab clinging to it.
~ James Lear
Here was some mystery I would get to the bottom of. Not the bottom I'd been hoping for, but not a bad alternative.
~ James Lear
I may have entered that room a timid virgin, but by the time I left it I was a fully committed, cock-hungry slut. From my first taste of Mick's cock, with its mixture of sweat and piss and precum, I was hooked.
~ James Lear
The padlock popped open and I almost FAINTED. 11
~ James Lee
Having no sense at all of where he might be headed, Joe Buck simply meandered deeper and deeper into September
~ James Leo Herlihy
One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.
~ James Lovelock
It's funny the way things work out. You go in search of one thing and end up finding something else. If I didn't know better, I'd think it was the Force at work." -Han Solo
~ James Luceno
Mildred sat quite still, and when she heard Veda drive off she was consumed by a fury so cold that it almost seemed as though she felt nothing at all. It didn't occur to her that she was acting less like a mother than like a lover who had unexpectedly discovered an act of faithlessness, and avenged it.
~ James M. Cain
they are missing the short- and long-term benefits of serendipitous interactions.
~ James M. Citrin
The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.
~ James MacDonald
to be about helping people discover what they can't get anywhere else.
~ James MacDonald
From the furnace of manifest presence, born of unashamed adoration and unapologetic preaching, comes an army of worshippers unafraid in their witness, determined to see others discover what they have found in the LORD.
~ James MacDonald