Discoveries

Famous quotes containing the word discoveries:

    However many discoveries we may have made in the land of self-love, there remain uncharted territories.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)