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

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

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

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

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn’t first lady my whole life. I’m a product of pop culture. I’m a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.

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

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.

Science is magic that works.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

Not all those who wander are lost.

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

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

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.

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.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Time discovers truth.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

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.

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

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

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

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.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

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.

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

Two kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

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

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

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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.

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

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

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

Strip malls are history.

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.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

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.

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

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

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

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.