Quotes about Discovery

Now we haven't got anything, and when you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hands on one is like Christmas and a birthday rolled up together.

I loved each of them dearly. One was a teacher, one was a preacher, and the last was an artist who found his calling later in life. One taught me to think, one taught me to know, and one taught me to see. Each inspired me.

From the very first country I visited, I knew I was not on this trip just for sightseeing. I did enjoy all the new experiences, but I had a strange certainty that I was being guided toward something I could not yet see.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.