The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for the appreciator must see the movement, wake to the echo which was started...

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I’ll stay down here and get the data. But nobody’s ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody’s ever...

The secret parts of this city never ceased to amaze me.

Sara: Tegan just recently discovered that unicorns don’t exist. Tegan: I just thought they were extinct.

You can only exceed your limits if you’ve discovered them.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may...

Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the...

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world…all...

It was the first time she’d discovered something she really didn’t want to find, and she didn’t know what to do once she’d found it.

He who discovers the light, discovers life. He who discovers the dark, discovers death, Neither are wrong and neither are right; your perception is what will guide your path. Our minds are our tools, our...

Thanks to Discovery, over one million visitors to the National Archives now have a perfect introduction to the depth and diversity of the Archives’ holdings. Democracy Starts Here is a moving tribute to the impact...

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on...

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

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.

How does she do it? She makes it sound like she is so cut up to be giving them this information, and it’s all just bumph out of her head. She never told them ANYTHING....

The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no...

It is an enormous area of discovery. I am sure there is a reason for every one of those components, and I’d like to know half of that in my lifetime.

When you seek, you lead in discovery.

Explore and discover the powerful ability within you.

It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods. Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded upon...

Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the same with phosphorus; this increase of weight arises from a prodigious quantity of...

Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don’t know.

Much is yet to be discovered and invented, so dig ideas with uniqueness

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an...

When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul’s High School, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The...

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play...

If you knew all about it, it wouldn’t be the leading edge.

According to an ancient Chinese legend, one day in the year 240 B.C., Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her teacup. When she tried to remove...

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

The path you walk is unique and needed. There is no other like yours. On your path you experience love, joy and peace, as well as loneliness, sadness and torment. These all are specific lessons...

As falsehood peels like paint, eternal truth is uncovered.

I don’t know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it’s not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That’s the point. The picture...

Sky HD will offer the best picture quality available and the addition of Discovery HD to the portfolio will enable viewers to be transported into the amazing environments featured on the channel. Discovery HD will...

The key thing they’re going to need to know how to do: is number one know biology and how to be sufficient in the discovery, but also be able to sit at a table and...

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature’s sci-fi.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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

It is to geometry that we owe in some sort the source of this discovery [of beryllium]; it is that [science] that furnished the first idea of it, and we may say that without it...

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn’t even know existed.

I was alone in this discovery because it was my secret, my private exploration.