Quotes about Discovery

People are curious about how things are made.

Use this time to make mistakes without the whole world hearing about them. Keep tweaking. Work out the kinks. Test random ideas. Try new things. No one knows you, so it's no big deal if you mess up. Obscurity helps protect your ego and preserve your confidence.

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.

It was as if all the latent beauty of things had been unveiled to her. She could not imagine that the world held anything more wonderful.

To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom.