Discovery Quotes

"It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb."

"I will reveal the secrets behind these doors."

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."

Henry Miller

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

Marcel Proust

"The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end."

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."

"It is not down in any map; true places never are."

Herman Melville

"To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The best journeys answer questions that in the beginning you didn't even think to ask."

Jeff Johnson

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

Albert Szent-Györgyi

"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next."

Jonas Salk

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

Galileo Galilei

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

Isaac Asimov

"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself."

André Breton

"The more one learns, the more one sees one's ignorance; the more one loves the beloved, the more one finds in her."

Thiruvalluvar

"The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth."

Jagadish Chandra Bose

"It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals."

Marie Curie

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."

Galileo Galilei

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

Mark Van Doren

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see."

Alexandra K. Trenfor

"With the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe."

Edwin Powell Hubble

"The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another."

"The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe."

John M. Grunsfeld

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

Isaac Newton