Quotes on Discovery

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

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

In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

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

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

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

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.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either.

Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.

The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.