There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure:
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both "at one with" and "separate from" the outside world. These discoveries ar...
I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff.
The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.
I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.
There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku čovječanstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Time is a continuous journey of self-discovery.
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Behind great discovery three values are the rudiments; inspiration , motivation and determination. To be a succesful general , you must be inspired, motivated and determined .
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.
