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• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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• In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Philosophical, Secret, Stronger

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• It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Writing, Darkness

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• If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Truth, Science, Mathematical Equations

  "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Change, Graduation, Education

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.

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• There is no better high than discovery.

  E. O. Wilson

  Inspirational, Recovery, Sobriety

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• The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Intuition, Littles

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• I do not seek. I find.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

  Pablo Picasso, Neil Kroetsch, Gérard Régnier, Jeffrey S. Moore, Musée Picasso (Paris, France) (1992). “The Body on the cross”, Réunion des musées nationaux ; [Montréal] : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  "Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs". Book by Morton A. Meyers, p. 14, 2007.

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• Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

  John Zorn

  Time, Eye, Vocalist

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• The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

  Robert Ballard

  Educational, Exploration, Archaeology

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• When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Life, God, Science

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• A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, Mistake, Learning

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• If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Education, Couple, Believe

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 82, 1799.

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• We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Mistake

  1859 Self-Help, ch.11.

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• Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Ignorance, Years, Diversity

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". Time Magazine (review of "The Age of Voltaire" by Will and Ariel Durant), October 8, 1965.

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• To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  World, Rewards, Strange

  "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.

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• The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

  Paul Valery

  Truth, Honesty, Spring

  "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci". Book by Paul Valery, 1895.

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• The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Inspirational, Congratulations, Creativity

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• We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.144, Macmillan

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• Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Simple, Ability

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• It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Religion, Atheism, Trying

  "What America Means to Me". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1943.

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• Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

  Arthur Keith

  Agriculture, Groups, Fertility

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• 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.

  Arthur H

  Confidence, Truth, Gamer

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