Discovery Quotes

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

A poem is a record of a discovery.

Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

Our real discoveries come from chaos.

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.

I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.

Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

In '7th Heaven,' more than 'Teen Wolf,' was that I got to learn more about my character. In 'Teen Wolf,' I'd always get a new arc for that character every season, which was discovery for me.

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.

Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.

The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

Chefs don't do ponytails and we shouldn't do them because I guarantee that whenever there's a discovery of hair in the food, it's guaranteed it's from the chef's ponytail.

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.