Quotes about Discovery

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.

In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.

We do not lealve the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions, We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore.

Our future depends upon our appreciation of the reality of the inner life, of the splendor of thought, of the dignity of wonder and reverence. This is the most important thought: God has a stake in the life of man, of every man. But this idea cannot be imposed from without; it must be discovered by every man; it cannot be preached, it must be experienced.