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Discovery Quotes


"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."


"All great and famous people understand that the chief priority in their life is to discover oneself, ones calling and to devote one's life to its fulfilment."


"Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission."


"It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow."


"The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school."


"The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California."


"Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different."


"As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal."


"I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts."


"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."


"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."


"Your discovery determines what you are known for."


"But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery."


"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery."


"There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules."


"If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate."


"Your calling is buried in your background on earth."


"We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise."


"In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation."


"Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely."


"Discovering yourself is the major key to being successful."


"It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery."


"We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things."


"I wanted to get lost to find myself."


"If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments."


"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
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