Quote Genre: Discovery

Santiago Ramon y Cajal – ‘Even granting that the geniu…

‘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 … Continue reading →

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Marcel Proust – ‘The voyage of discovery is n…

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

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Joseph Priestly – ‘In completing one discovery …

‘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.’

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Blaise Pascal – ‘The last thing one discovers…

‘The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.’

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Sir Isaac Newton – ‘If I have ever made any valu…

‘If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason.’

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Samuel Eliot Morison – ‘He [Columbus] enjoyed long s…

‘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.’

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Alan Alexander Milne – ‘One of the advantages of bei…

‘One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.’

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Judith S. Martin – ‘It is far more impressive wh…

‘It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.’

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Robert Falcon Scott – ‘Had we lived I should have h…

‘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.’

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Mike Lancelot – ‘The real voyage of discovery…

‘The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.’

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