The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.
The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more than their contemporaries dreamed of, or even themselves discovered, that is, when they were in a frame of mind fitted to behold the truth. Referred to the world's standard, they are always insane. Even savages have indirectly surmised as much.
As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.
Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.
Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men. . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.
People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
