Discovery Quotes

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice.

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

Look, I'm going to take full advantage of this situation just because I love working with great filmmakers. But I've been around for a while, and I'm not going to play into the hype that I'm some great, you know, discovery.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.

There is no better high than discovery.

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.