Discovery Quotes

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes.

God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

What drives me is that moment of discovery. I love the unknown.

Discovery is for forward lookers.

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

The Way to do is to be.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.