Discovery Quotes

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.

The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

The world is our school for spiritual discovery.

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits.

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.

Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

What I learned on my own I still remember

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.

Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.