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Discovery Quotes

"The process of love includes discovering what lies beneath the acceptably beautiful exterior."
Alain de Botton
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Carl Sagan
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe"
Gustave Flaubert
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes"
Marcel Proust
"I am among those who think that science has great beauty."
Marie Curie
"The world to me was a secret, which I desired to divine"
Mary Shelley
"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"
T. S. Eliot
"The future is not about grand visions. In fact, it's just a powerful urge to explore."
Vinod Khosla
"I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination."
Brad Pitt
"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
Sigmund Freud
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds."
John F. Kennedy
"There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery."
Jeff Bezos
"To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment."
Jeff Bezos
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
Jeff Bezos
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."
Jeff Bezos
"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do."
Walt Disney
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
Michelangelo
"The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it’s easy to fall off."
Anderson Cooper
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"
Isaac Newton
"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me"
Isaac Newton