Discovery Quotes

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time" "The important thing is not to stop questioning" "Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?" "Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate" "Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds" "I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration is to me." "I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination." "The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark" "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks" "To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me" "I do not seek. I find. " "The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it’s easy to fall off." "Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." "When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do." "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." "To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment." "There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery." "The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."