#discovery

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#fate #self-discovery #understanding #destiny

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#earth #illusion #illusion

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#being #centuries #civilized #discovery #exist

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#many #moment #private #reward #rich

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man. ↗

— Bruno Rossi

#discovery #experiment #far #feeling #goes

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#become #discovery #knowledge #our #quest

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person. ↗

— Gerard Way

#rebirth #self-discovery #life

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#bad #columbus #discovered #discovery #first

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery. ↗

— Paul Berg

#excitement #facts #forgotten #i #learned

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#discovery #dish #happiness #humanity #more