Discovery Quotes

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."

"I have just got a new theory of eternity."

"The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be."

"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite."

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made"

"I do not seek. I find."

"No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others."

"What has become clear to you since we last met?"

"What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea."

"If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new"

"It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist"

"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."

"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess"

"If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing"

"The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices."

"If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries."

"Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. ''He's lucky',' an envious person remarks. ''He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor'.' In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called ''luck'' usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by ''pull',' but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day."

"We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."