Quotes about Discovery

Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.

Almost forgetting for the moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind. A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-color, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.

We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.