It is a profound mistake to think that everything has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.
Discovery Quotes
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. (1912, on his doomed Antarctic expedition)
The voyage of discovery is not in looking for new landscapes, but in looking with new eyes.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
I’m more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
Behind him (Columbus) lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said: “Now we must pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?” – “Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on! […]
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
And if there had been more of the world, They would have reached it.
The urge to explore, to discover, to “follow knowledge like a sinking star,” is a primary human impulse that needs, and can receive, no further justification than its own existence. The search for knowledge, said a modern Chinese philosopher, is a form of play. If this be true, then the spaceship, when it comes, will […]
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
