A Quote by Adam Haslett

Discovery is the joy.

Adam Haslett

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Discovery Joy

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Adam Haslett
American - Writer
Born: December 24, 1970

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

Andre Gide

There has to be some mystery in life, because the joy of being a writer and the joy of being a musician is the joy of discovery. I don't want someone discovering for me what I should be discovering on my own. If a person is discovering for me, then they're living for me. It's my responsibility, indeed it's my privilege, to go out and discover the world for myself.

James McBride

No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Joyce Grenfell

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

A. A. Milne

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

H. L. Mencken

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Claude Bernard

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard

We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.

Elizabeth Esty

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Alfred North Whitehead

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

Martha Graham

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

Michele Cassou

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!