Discovery Quotes - Page 2

The world is always open,
Waiting to be discovered.

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

Discovery's friend is creativity

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

There were three things sought by invaders who crossed
oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory.
There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens
to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.

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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.

The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?

For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery - that most unstable existential moment - the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.