Discovery Quotes

“And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“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 best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“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 could ever be produced by our will alone.”
― Donella H. Meadows, Thinking In Systems: A Primer

“In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

“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 named a high school after a robot. So when I don my public-educator hat, I have to recognize the elements of exploration that excite people. It's not only the discoveries and the beautiful photos that come down from the heavens; it's the vicarious participation in discovery itself.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

“To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.”
― Adam Phillips, Equals

“And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“To be found is to be exposed. No wonder so many of us are still lost.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth”
― Benjamin Wiker, The Mystery of the Periodic Table

“As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.”
― Clarence Day

“Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.”
― Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator

“Building a museum case and filling it with types of mussels is one way of knowing mussels; but on the shore, a mussel leads to a crab or a curious stone, which leads to another thing and eventually leads back to mussels, which is another and perhaps a more far-reaching way to know mussels. The sea that always seems like a metaphor, but one that is always moving, cannot be fixed, like a heart that is a like a tongue that is like a mystery that is like a story that is like a border that is like something altogether different and like everything at once. One thing leads to another, and this is the treasure that always runs through your fingers and never runs out.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“Through the discovery ofBuchner,Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.”
― Jacques Loeb

“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.”
― Leonard Nimoy, Shekhina

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“Our arrogance as a species is only a few degrees away from us claiming that we invented, not discovered, fire.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.”
― Kedar Joshi

“Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He wriggled his toes, breathed hard through his nose, twisted his brown moustache where some drops of water still clung, and looked himself critically all over. The scrutiny seemed to satisfy him, as well as it might. I, whose only acquaintance was with bodies and minds developing, was suddenly confronted by maturity in its most undeniable form; and I wondered, what must it feel like to be him, master of those limbs which have passed beyond the need of gym and playing field, and exist for their own beauty and strength? What can they do, I thought, to be conscious of themselves?”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

“Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Don’t limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To be successful, love yourself and be originally you. Discover what you were born to do and do it well.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“To fully carry out your purpose as believers, you have to discover where the people you want to minister to are”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A mapping of discovery should be carried out”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Find the interest of people and help them achieve their calling”
― Sunday Adelaja