Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Science is magic that works.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

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

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn’t come here. Well, it can’t hide forever – one day we will overhear it.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

The chimpanzee study was – well, it’s still going on, and I think it’s taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we’re simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

The North East has always been the hub to produce few of the best talents in the country and it is great for the people from the hills to have their own local club to cheer for considering the kind of passion they have for the game.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.