#Discovery Quotes

“What light through yonder window breaks?”

“a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.”

“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.”

“Love is like wildflowers;It's often found in the most unlikely places.”

“Science finds it methods.”

“Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals”

“If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.”

“The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.”

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

“Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.”

“By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.”

“Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.”

“... by indirections find directions out.”

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”

“Love is nothing other than finding the truth.”

“A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.”

“Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.”

“Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.”

“Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.”

“If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.”

“The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.”

“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.”

“It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.”

“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction”

“(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.”

“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.”

“First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”

“Lets take full advantage of this discovery”

“What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.”

“You can't wait for the perfect situation. Find something you love. People you love. And get out there and you'll discover it.”

“Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.”

“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”

“Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went.”

“The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them”

“Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.”

“There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

“Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."”

“For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is it to be in love?" she demanded, after a long silence; each word as it came into being seemed to shove itself out into an unknown sea. Hypnotized by the wings of the butterfly, and awed by the discovery of a terrible possibility in life, she sat for some time longer. When the butterfly flew away, she rose, and within, her two books beneath her arm returned again, much as a soldier prepares for battle.”

“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

“A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.”

“Frying pans! Who knew, right?”

“The wonders of nature are endless.”

“Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.”

“Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.”

“I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.”

“I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!”

“Are you the new person drawn toward me?”

“We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.”