Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
André GideTag: inspirational courage daring exploration discovery
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A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension.
I was sorry of the man who, it seemed to me, was forced to hover about the edges of science. He was compelled to shiver endlessly in the outskirts, getting only feeble warmth from the distant sun of science- in-progress; while I, just beginning my research, was bathed in the heady liquid heat up at the very center of the glow.
In a lifetime of being wrong at many a point, I was never more wrong. It was I, not he, who was wandering in the periphery. It was he, not I, who lived in the blaze.
I had fallen victim to the fallacy of the 'growing edge;' the belief that only the very frontier of scientific advance counted; that everything that had been left behind by that advance was faded and dead.
But is that true? Because a tree in spring buds and comes greenly into leaf, are those leaves therefore the tree? If the newborn twigs and their leaves were all that existed, they would form a vague halo of green suspended in mid-air, but surely that is not the tree. The leaves, by themselves, are no more than trivial fluttering decoration. It is the trunk and limbs that give the tree its grandeur and the leaves themselves their meaning.
There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before. 'If I have seen further than other men,' said Isaac Newton, 'it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
Tag: science horror discovery condescension fallacy historian-of-science history-of-science isaac-newton newton research
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Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
Chuck PalahniukThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma GandhiTag: attributed-no-source identity service self-discovery discovery
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar WildeThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel ProustWhen all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
Charles BaxterTag: writing fiction mystery destiny discovery perfection plot overdetermination
Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.
Richard AdamsTag: discovery
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
A.A. MilneWe are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
Blaise PascalTag: self-discovery discovery proof reasons convincing rationale
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