Discovery Quotations

Guest Author - Danielle Hollister

"The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
-- Aristotle
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. "
-- Francis Bacon
"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. "
-- Alexander Graham Bell
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
-- Henry Bergson
"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
-- Claude Bernard
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."
-- Les Brown
"Everything changes, nothing remains without change."
-- The Buddha
"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. "
-- The Buddha
"Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the place to have the experience."
-- Joseph Campbell
Discovery - Tonquin Valley
"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
-- Eddie Cantor
"Learn to see, and then you'll know there is no end to the new worlds of our vision."
-- Carlos Castaneda
"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."
-- Ornette Coleman
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
-- James B. Conant
"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. "
-- Marie Curie
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
-- Agnes de Mille
"I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing. "
-- Stephen De Staebler
"When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves."
-- Dogen
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
-- Albert Einstein
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
-- Albert Einstein
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
-- Albert Einstein
Journey's End
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
-- Epictetus
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."
-- M.C. Escher
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
-- Galileo Galilei
"I shut my eyes in order to see."
-- Paul Gauguin
"Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps."
-- David Lloyd George
"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
-- Goethe
"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."
-- Jane Hamilton
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things."
-- Grace Hooper
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
-- Aldous Huxley
Discover - Moon
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. "
-- William James
"A man's errors are his portals of discovery. "
-- James Joyce
"The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think. "
-- Søren Kierkegaard
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
-- Arthur Koestler
"Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. "
-- Susanne K. Langer
"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
-- John Locke
"In casting your inspirational net as an artist, you become familiar with the humility that comes with watching your best-laid plans veer sideways, and recordings becoming something other that what you expected. So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder."
-- Loreena McKennitt
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
--A.A. Milne
The Journey
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
-- Isaac Newton
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. "
-- Isaac Newton
"I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers. "
-- Dean Ornish
"Busy, busy, busy we pass the days of our lives — gone all too soon. Gone before we get to our dreams of creative expression, self-fulfillment, nurturing."
-- Carol Orsborn
"All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. "
-- Charles H. Parkhurst
"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others. "
-- Blaise Pascal
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
-- Eden Phillpotts
"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process."
-- Joseph Priestley
"In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones."
-- Joseph Priestley
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
-- Marcel Proust
Discovery - Aspen Trees
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
-- Chinese Proverb
"When you seek it, you cannot find it. "
-- Zen Proverb
"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
"I invent nothing. I rediscover. "
-- François-Auguste Rodin
"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."
-- Theodore Roethke
"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."
-- Saint Augustine
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
--Gail Sheehy
"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."
-- Sophocles
"I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. "
-- William Stafford
"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Did You Hear the One?
"Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-- Mark Twain
"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. "
-- Frank Tyger
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
-- Lao Tzu
"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."
-- Voltaire
"Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again. "
-- Eudora Welty
"Everything of importance has been seen by someone who did not discover it. "
-- Alfred North Whitehead
"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting."
-- Dr. Who
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
-- Tennessee Williams
"At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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