Discoverers Quotes

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin… — James Clerk Maxwell
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who… — Charles Darwin
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we… — Heinrich Hertz
We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers. — Glenn Murcutt
Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge. — Albert Einstein
Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral… — Albert Einstein
The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time… — Rick Strassman
America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others. — Bill Nye
Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer. — John Charles Polanyi
And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And… — John Donne
The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves. — Robert Grudin
The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible… — George Johnson
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but… — Henry David Thoreau
People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers. — John Thomas Sladek
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the… — Arthur C. Clarke
As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers. — Paul Allen
Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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