Quotes about Discovery

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

I am going to seek a great Perhaps.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

If we cannot detect God's presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places.

until recently no one could know that the little blob of light marked the presence of another galaxy, one twice the size of the Milky Way and home to half a trillion stars. Or that these next-door neighbors were but two of 100 billion galaxies likewise swarming with stars.

I do not get to know God, then do God's will; I get to know God by doing that will.