Quotes about Discovery

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.

Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

Start looking for joy and you'll find it.

Books, for me, have always been a way to escape. They were my path to personal freedom. I actually learned to read at the age of three, and once I did, I quickly learned that there was a whole world beyond my grandmother's farm in Mississippi.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?