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.
Discovery Quotes
Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he (Amundsen) any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.
When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star’d at the Pacific and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
He gave the world another world. (Columbus)
When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before.
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.
Fain would I hide what I fear to discover.
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.
