There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

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

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

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

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

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.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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 way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

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

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

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

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

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

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

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

I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

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.

I bear a charmed life.

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

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

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

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

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

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.

Science is magic that works.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

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

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.

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

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.

Not all those who wander are lost.