Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels...

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.

Unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures

What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758, while observing the comet of that year. … This nebula had such a...

It’s the unknown that draws people.

There’s no discovery without a search and there’s no rediscovery without a research. Every discovery man ever made has always been concealed. It takes searchers and researchers to unveil them, that’s what make an insightful...

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It...

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we...

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this...

A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.

If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

Writing is discovering what you don’t know.

This is an extraordinarily broad discovery request.

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities… If there is poetry in my book about...

Like the discovery of most things – love and religion especially – she maintained the child’s arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace...

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench there. I had been passing a current through the tube, and...

If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

I feel like the only reason we’re able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery. And, by definition, ‘discovery’ means you don’t know the answer when you start.

Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is “the fear of the Lord”. Fear God and be wise.

Self-identity is about content not the container that carry the identity,contextual value and not a solo island. It is about conception and not just a birth process.

There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.

You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you…

Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

A story about the Jack Spratts of medicine [was] told recently by Dr. Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin. He had been invited to a conference of heart specialists in North America. On the eve...

If you have to dig to find yourself, you are probably dead.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be...

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

We don’t receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

The secret to excitement is discovering new paths, and having the courage to take them.

Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both “at...

I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hypothesis of Cerion’s general pattern required that two predictions be affirmed (or else we were in trouble): this population...

For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is...

The capital … shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the past year. … One-fifth to...

I hope there isn’t. I’m for uncertainty. As soon as you think you know, you’re done for. You don’t listen and you can’t hear. If you’re certain of anything, you shut the door on the...

It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men… and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious...

Of course, he sees creation as discovery. I mean, everything is already created, by the first cause—call it God if you like; everything is already there to be found.

To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses...

We can’t impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than...

Our true self is made manifest in love.

We need more love, to supersede hatred, —We need more strength, to resist our weaknesses, —We need more inspiration, to lighten up our inner mind. —We need more learning, to erase our ignorance, —We need...

Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don’t have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, they delude...

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,...