Discovery Quotes

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

You have discovered the spiritual universe. Many others have discovered this same world, but each must make the discovery for himself. You are going to have a lot of joy sailing around this world of yours. Don't fight the opinions of others, or waste your time arguing over these things. Follow the inward gleam of your consciousness and you will arrive.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We've managed to muttle through the awkward stage of i like you and you like me, but when we both finally said 'yes' life became a multiple choice test, not knowing anything we became each others best guess. and, holding your hand is less like exploration and more like discovery. lady, i don't have to study you to be sure. you're the choice i made before i knew what the other choices were

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.