#discover

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

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An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof. ↗

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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