1,204 Quotes About Discovery

I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.

It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

I always feel anxious if anyone’s close to uncovering my secrets.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.

We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.