Great saying by great authors Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an…

— Nikola Tesla

All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.

— Herman Melville

ou can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting…

— Michael Faraday

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with…

— George Ellery Hale

Great discoveries were once great miseries...Don't forsake your destiny too soon.

— Keith Mosaic

You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting…

— Michael Faraday

I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to…

— Charles Darwin

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.

— Heidi Julavits

The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from…

— Paul-Emile Victor

We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.

— Alan Stern

Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like…

— Wallace Stegner

It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird…

— Anais Nin