Discovery Quotes

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t.

Some discoveries provide answers to questions. Other discoveries are so deep that they cast questions in a whole new light, showing that previous mysteries were misperceived through lack of knowledge.

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.

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.

He (Columbus) began in error yet reached a triumph greater than he lived to know.

And if there had been more of the world, They would have reached it.