EXPLORATION/DISCOVERY
1. A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
2. Adventure is just bad planning. ~Roald Amundsen
3. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ~Galileo Galilei
4. An idea, like a ghost must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. ~Charles Dickens
5. Anyone can look for history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store. ~Robert Wieder
6. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
7. Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery. ~William Jevons
8. He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ~Samuel Smiles
9. How do I work? I grope. ~Albert Einstein
10. I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ~Isaac Newton
11. I long to set foot where no man has trod before. ~Charles Darwin
12. If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. ~Isaac Newton
13. If people never did silly things, then nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
14. If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done. ~Peter Ustinov
15. If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16. Learning is the discovery that something is possible. ~Fritz Perls
17. Make voyages! Attempt them...there’s nothing else. ~Tennessee Williams
18. Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ~James Joyce
19. No one knows what he can do till he tries. ~Publilius Syrus
20. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ~Helen Keller
21. Not all those who wander are lost. ~J.R.R. Tolkein
22. One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~Andre Gide
23. One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ~A. A. Milne
24. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't. ~Henry Ford
25. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T. S. Eliot
26. People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. ~Blaise Pascal
27. Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only,
Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee,
and thou with me,
For we are bound where mariner has not yet
dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all,
O my brave soul!
O farther farther sail!
O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God? ~Walt Whitman
28. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark van Doren
29. The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. ~Frank Herbert
30. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James
31. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ~Daniel J. Boorstin
32. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ~Arthur Koestler
33. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' ~Isaac Asimov
34. The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. ~Marcel Proust
35. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust
36. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ~Douglas Adams
37. There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. ~Richard Feynman
38. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain
39. We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. ~T. S. Eliot
40. We shall not cease from exploration; and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the very first time. ~T. S. Eliot
41. When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. ~William Arthur Ward
42. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ~Plato