Discovery Quotations

You cannot teach a man everything; you can only help him discover it in himself. - Galileo Galilei
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity,
empty of dreams. - Neil deGrosse Tynan
The only voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. - Marcel
Proust
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts as the Columbus
of his own soul. - Anonymous
The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it
differently. - Ira Erwin
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert
Szent-Gyorgyi
One doesnt discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre
Gide
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is
here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is
another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing
the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each
of them sees. Marcel Proust.
There is no harm in doubt and scepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. Richard
Feynman
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a mans breast with pride above
that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none
others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are walking
where none others have walked; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to
discover a great thought an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough
had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning
carry your messages. To be the first that is the idea. Mark Twain.

Response Activities:
1. Further explore the area of study rubric through matching the quotations above to various
aspects of the rubric. This can be done using a table or by cutting up the rubric and
physically moving the pieces of rubric to match the various quotations.
2. Utilise one of the above quotations as a stimulus for a piece of imaginative writing
exploring the relevant aspects of the concept of discovery, as identified in the first activity.
3. Utilise one of the quotations as the statement for an essay question. Write out the plan for
your essay, including the thesis and at least three points of argument through which you
would prove your thesis.