Quotes about Discovery

Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.

Circumstance does not make the person, it reveals the person to himself or herself.

He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened; for

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be equally interested in fundamental science.

The further you venture down a river the bigger the fish.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.