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

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

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

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

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.

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

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

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

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.

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

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

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

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.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

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

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

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

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

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.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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.

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

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.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Time discovers truth.

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.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

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.