Quote by Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected.

— Oscar Wilde

“Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?”

— Ogwo David Emenike

“[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would…

— Bill Bryson

“But discoveries are what usually egg us on. Not finding anything would be very bad indeed.”

— John Brockman

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

— Isaac Newton

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.

— Howard Carter

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing

— Francis Parker Yockey

“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.”

— Morgan Matson

“The world seems so discovered, yet none of the largest secrets our world hold has ever been found.”

— Winston Setiawan

“And one day...there would be no record, nothing left standing, to show that anything had ever been built in America. It was going to…

— Philipp Meyer

“Now nearly all the mysteries have gone, and there is scarcely an unknown country left to peer at.)”

— Jan Morris