Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree as Columbus himself was well aware…. The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name Indies to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India and that no great sea lay between.
Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For further union a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation … In my end is my beginning.
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know and moments of high proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years agosince which time he has been working toiling and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
Half of all scientific discoveries ever made were made in the 20th century. Creation is accelerating and even the acceleration appears to be accelerating.
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck incapacitated or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree as Columbus himself was well aware…. The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name Indies to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India and that no great sea lay between.
Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For further union a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation … In my end is my beginning.
When I discover who I am Ill be free.
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterward.
The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know and moments of high proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years agosince which time he has been working toiling and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
Research is to see what everybody else has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Half of all scientific discoveries ever made were made in the 20th century. Creation is accelerating and even the acceleration appears to be accelerating.
My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground as chestnuts etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck incapacitated or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.