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For the rest, Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Carl Sagan
Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.
Source Unknown
Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.
Mary Elizabeth Hewitt
Where would we be if throughout history, our greatest minds had feared that which they could not confirm? Embrace the unknown with caution, but not with fear.
Karyn Somerfield, (quotation sub
That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.
Bruce Oldfield
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein
If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.
Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.
Jodi Picoult
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing or experiencing anything for the first time unless it comes as a revelation? And for that to happen, some previously held thought or belief must be confounded, or enhanced, or even transcended. What difference can it make otherwise to see a redwood tree, a tiger, or a humming bird?
Ted Simon, Jupiter
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees.
Marcel Proust
An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
Enrico Fermi
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
Barbara Tuchman
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce
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.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Littl
What has become clear to you since we last met?
Benjamin Franklin
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
Albert Camus
