I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
Discovery Quotes
My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked.
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
A man of science doesn’t discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
Who never walks, save where he sees men’s tracks, makes no discoveries.
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago – since which time he has been working, toiling and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
