Quotes about Discovery
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
— Victor Hugo
Voyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant.
— Victor Hugo
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
— Victor Hugo
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?
— Victor Hugo
There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him who chances to be there! That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is like the dawn in the sky. It
— Victor Hugo
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;
— Victor Hugo
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field of vision? Choose. A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
— Victor Hugo
The larger the searchlight, the larger the searchlight of the unknown.
— Milan Kundera
Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.
— CS Lewis
The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.
— Charles Dickens
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
— Brian Tracy
Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.
— Camron Wright