Discovery Quotes

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

A man of science doesn’t discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

Who never walks, save where he sees men’s tracks, makes no discoveries.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago – since which time he has been working, toiling and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.

Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. It will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore all around it; one discovery […]

Aboriginies, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

What I have a passion for is the idea of discovery. People keep asking what’s the next thing on the horizon, and I keep saying it’s not there yet.