Quotes about Discovery
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
I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere.
- Candace Bushnell
There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.
- Carl Sagan
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
- Carl Sagan
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
- Carl Sagan