“Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?”
“We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.”
“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
“We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.”
“Where would we be without the success of our mothers?”
“I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.”