Discovery Quotes

“A silent breeze swept away a moment, one that never can be recaptured, never can it be relived. So it is for us to cherish the  moments, cherish them with all of our might. For just as an eagle in flight, they are transient, soon vanishing like the moon as day return the light.”
― Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

“The face that was engulfed in sadness just a few moments ago was now having a diabolical glow.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

“If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“We can't impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than could ever be produced by our will alone.”
― Donella H. Meadows, Thinking In Systems: A Primer

“Beware he whose reputation is burnished bright, oft times the darkness is hidden by the polished light.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress:

“Next morning, while her children were still asleep in their tent, Evie got up early. The acorn she had planted the day before had sprung to life and was nearly ten feet high. Sitting on the fallen log where the forest boy had sat thirty years earlier, she listened. There was no dancing partner. Maybe she was now too old, but the oak trees did sing for her.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress:

“And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“He always was a stubborn mule. But who would actually kill him over vegetables? It just doesn’t add up.”
― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder

“Metal makes everything techno-magical.”
― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically by the Elemental Dragons

“There were three things sought by invaders who crossed
oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory.
There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens
to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

“Ketika untuk pertama kalinya saya berhasil menanam padi dengan metoda tanpa pengolahan, saya merasa benar-benar puas seperti apa yang dirasakan Colombus ketika ia menemukan benua Amerika”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.”
― Thomas Hayden

“This part of my life is called The Remix. When you notice that you are no longer on the track, just sing along and be happy for me.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“After all the lies and the deception have been successfully challenged in your favour, I hope that you will, at least, find comfort in the truth.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“We (in the sense of human beings) travel and explore the world, carrying with us some “background books.” These need not accompany us physically; the point is that we travel with preconceived notions of the world, derived from our cultural tradition. In a very curious sense we travel knowing in advance what we are on the verge of discovering, because past reading has told us what we are supposed to discover.”
― Umberto Eco, Serendipities: Language and Lunacy

“Sometimes an escape is also a return.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“In the heart of the forest, every step is a dream, every breath a prayer, every glance a discovery.”
― David Passarelli, Mountain poems: Musings on stone, forest, and snow

“Hidden things need not be feared after all because everything is hiding a secret. Even happiness.”
― Alvin Yapan

“If I focus on the benefits of the discovery versus the privilege of having discovered, I will discover how much I haven’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The making of art
allows for full immersion,
deepest engagement,
flow
like no else.

Well, maybe one else:
the learning of anything that you really--
really--
want to know,
which can be an art form itself,

Lose yourself to find yourself.
Find yourself through losing yourself
in the delicious process of discovery.”
― Shellen Lubin

“The other frogs all told me to stay safe in our well and to stop filling my head with, "Dangerous ocean nonsense!" But I could not forget...”
― E. K. Mosley, The Last Stardog

“Doing nothing often leads to discoveries!”
― Steven Magee

“Through the storm, I found the strength I never knew I had.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“The smallest steps can lead to the greatest journeys.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“Research is the art of turning curiosity into discovery and discovery into understanding."
"Every great research starts with a question that refuses to be ignored."
"Research is not just about finding answers; it’s about challenging assumptions and expanding horizons."
"True research doesn’t just seek to explain what is known but dares to explore what is yet unknown."
"To research is to journey through uncertainty with a compass of curiosity."
"Great research is fueled by doubt and driven by a relentless pursuit of truth."
"Research is a dance between intuition and evidence, where both are needed to find balance."
"The power of research lies not in the data it collects, but in the stories it reveals."
"Research is a commitment to ask the difficult questions and accept the complex answers."
"To research is to see the world not just as it is, but as it could be.”
― Vorng Panha

“You discovered something in the darkness. Something more terrifying than fear itself. A light that symbolized your soul.”
― Dark Night Beacon

“Let us honor the complexity of experience
and exploration, for
every experience has the potential for exploration,
wide and/or deep,
and every exploration
is a complex experience with inherent discoveries
and, too, destructions.”
― Shellen Lubin

“But all of those points of light above are also suns, even farther away, and they all have worlds, too."
"All of them? Every single one? But that's like hundreds."
"Thousands. Maybe millions."
"But that's incredible," Borne said, quietly. "That's amazing. That's devastating.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne