I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.
Discovery Quotes
Some men are discovered; others are found out.
It is a profound mistake to think that everything has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. (1912, on his doomed Antarctic expedition)
The voyage of discovery is not in looking for new landscapes, but in looking with new eyes.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
I’m more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
He (Columbus) began in error yet reached a triumph greater than he lived to know.
And if there had been more of the world, They would have reached it.
The urge to explore, to discover, to “follow knowledge like a sinking star,” is a primary human impulse that needs, and can receive, no further justification than its own existence. The search for knowledge, said a modern Chinese philosopher, is a form of play. If this be true, then the spaceship, when it comes, will […]
