"There is no better high than discovery."

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"To get where you want to go, the first question you always have to answer is Where am I? ... We only find out where we are when we find out where He is. We only find ourselves... when we find Him."

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

Discovery, Faith, Identity, Presence

"But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Discovery, Research, Failure, Chaos

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Discovery, Errors, Man

"You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Discovery, Expectation, Reality, Surprise

"The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Discovery, Power, Sky, Secrets, Nature

"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."

Voltaire, French Writer

Discovery, Novelty, Life, Hope

"He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Discovery, Opportunity, Wonder, Joy

"We all seek for lost things within us."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Discovery, Truth, Self, Power, Wisdom

"Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Discovery, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Power

"Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Discovery, Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth, Future

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"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."

Astronomy

"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."

Time

"The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago."

Circumstance

"Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals."

Religion

"Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart."

Heart

"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science."

Science

"A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic."

Environment

"If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable."

Success

"True character arises from a deeper well than religion."

Religion

"People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive."

People