Quotes about Discovery
Job! It was such a rare thing to find a patient man that when one was really discovered they were determined he shouldn't be forgotten,' retorted Miss Cornelia triumphantly.
— LM Montgomery
When you can't figure Me out, you will give up the illusion of predictability and control and discover the joy and freedom of hope.
— Larry Crabb
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.
— Albert Einstein
The Microbe is so very small you cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.
— Hilaire Belloc
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
— Frank Herbert
Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.
— Pope John Paul II
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
— Francis Collins
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
— Albert Einstein
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
— Stephen Hawking
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.
— Mark Twain
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?
— Carl Sagan