Quotes about Discovery
The larger the searchlight, the larger the searchlight of the unknown.
— Milan Kundera
Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.
— CS Lewis
The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.
— Charles Dickens
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
— Brian Tracy
Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.
— Camron Wright
There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.
— Carl Sagan
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
— Carl Sagan
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
— Carl Sagan
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
— Carl Sagan
I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.
— Carl Sagan
These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.
— Carl Sagan
The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.
— Carl Sagan