quotations about discovery
The greatest discoveries are those we make about ourselves.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
attributed, Synchronicity & You
Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.
TOM VILSACK
speech, Jan. 10, 2006
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACON
Advancement of Learning
Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.
MAX WERTHEIMER
Productive Thinking
You are my discovery
Everything I'll ever need
KAILEE MORGUE
"Discovery"
Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each enduring a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
"Prospects in the Arts and Sciences,", Fifty Great Essays
I am among those who believe ... that humanity will obtain more good than evil from future discoveries.
MARIE CURIE
Pierre Curie
Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.
BRYANT MCGILL
Voice of Reason
Fruits of discovery
Some distant form
Something repeated
Something reborn
Trace of a feeling
Trace of regret
Hard to remember
Hard to forget
PROCOL HAREM
"Strangers in Space", Something Magic
The more one discovers, the more one realizes how much more there is to discover.
MILLIE FLORENCE
Lydia Green of Mulberry Glen
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance, rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon; Or, Many Things in Few Words
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
PLINY
attributed, Day's Collacon
I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Flight Behavior
I'm getting used to it
Like kissing under a bridge
It's an entirely new discovery
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
"Pow Pow"
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Discoveries have the same basic structure as jokes. Jokes often employ structures in which the listener is led to expect one outcome and is surprised to find that the punch line provides a very different resolution. Indeed, many scientists have commented that the greatest discoveries are often met with the same sort of surprised laughter elicited by a good joke. Sometimes the laughter is born of surprise, sometimes of disbelief, sometimes of ridicule.
ROBERT ROOT-BERNSTEIN
"Discovery,", Encyclopedia of Creativity
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered, which can seldom or never be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
CLARENCE DAY
This Simian World
It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth.
BENJAMIN WIKER
The Mystery of the Periodic Table