1,204 Quotes About Discovery

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

The issue is whether discovery is relevant here.

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.