Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Discovery Quotes
DiscoveryResearchUncertainty If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
AppreciationDiscoveryEnjoymentOptimismPositivity For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.
AtomsDiscoveryHuman BodyKnowledgeScience Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
DiscoveryPotentialSelf-awarenessTalent Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
AppreciationCuriosityDiscoveryNature I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
DiscoveryKnowledgeLearning ProcessMemoryMystery We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.
AdaptabilityDiscoveryJoyPerseverance Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.
AwarenessDiscoveryExpectation If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
ApplicationDiscoveryProgressScienceUncertainty As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
CourageDiscoveryInnovationInspirationPhysics When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.
AdventureCourageDiscoveryIntuitionNavigation For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
CreativityDiscoveryFreedomInnovationUnconventionality One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
DiscoveryIntuitionOrderUnderstanding There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
DiscoveryInnovationNatureResearchScience I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.
DiscoveryJourney of KnowledgeUnexpected ValueUnintended Benefits The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
DiscoveryOpen-mindednessPrejudiceTravel To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
DiscoveryHonorOrderPerseveranceScience To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
AdaptabilityCreativityDiscoveryInnovationSerendipity I just kept throwing out two or three major ideas, and then that was pretty much right when Tom Phillips came to me asking about the commentary idea and I ended up jumping into that, went down a rabbit hole I never expected.
ArtCreativityDiscoveryExpressionUncertainty I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
DiscoveryFrontiersKnowledgeReligionScience So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.
CuriosityDiscoveryInvestigationPerseveranceProblem Solving Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
DiscoveryGrowthHumilityIndependencePerseverance When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.
DiscoveryMemorySelf-Realization When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
ChildhoodCuriosityDiscoveryInnocenceNature I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
