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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
-Diane Ackerman
A Natural History of the Senses
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
-Ansel Adams
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
-Francis Bacon
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You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
-Ethel Barrymore
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
-Mary Catherine Bateson
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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
-Jean Baudrillard
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If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
-Alexander Graham Bell
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Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.
-Alexander Graham Bell
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As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
-Bhagavad Gita
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
-Josh Billings
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Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
-Jorge Luis Borges
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
-Robert Browning
from Andrea Del Sarto, first published in Men and Women, 1855
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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
-Albert Camus
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
-Lewis Carroll
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There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.
-Sri Chinmoy
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
-E. M. Cioran
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The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.
-David Cronenberg
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Little Gidding (from the last of his Four Quartets)
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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
-Werner Erhard
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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
-William M. Evarts
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I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
-Edna Ferber
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An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
-Enrico Fermi
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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Books about Discovery
