1,204 Quotes About Discovery

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.

I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.

Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But nobody's ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody's ever named a high school after a robot. So when I don my public-educator hat, I have to recognize the elements of exploration that excite people. It's not only the discoveries and the beautiful photos that come down from the heavens; it's the vicarious participation in discovery itself.

We can't impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than could ever be produced by our will alone.