I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold meöwould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchönor the heaven above herö As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.

-Gordon, Adam Lindsay
'The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

We listen to others to discover what we ourselves believe.

-Grant, George P
Quoted in CBC  Times,18 Feb1959.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only theapplication of themthat is human. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable asthose by whichthe universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

-Paine,Thomas
  TheAge of Reason, pt.1.

There is only one constant preoccupation: I have throughout been anxious to discover how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  My Philosophical Development, ch.1.

Danser, c'est de¤  couvrir et recre¤  er, surtout lorsque la danse est danse d'amour. C'est, en tout cas, le meilleur mode de connaissance. To dance is to discover and to recreate, above all when the dance is the dance of love. It is the best mode of knowledge.

-Senghor, Le¤  opold Se¤  dar
  Au Congr e' s de l'Union nationale de laJeunesse du Mali, Dakar. English  economist.   He   stressed  the   importance  of   the  last hour's   work   in   the   cotton  factories   and  opposed  the   trade unions.   His   works   include  On   the  Cost   of   Obtaining  Money (1830),  An  Outline  of  the  Science  of  Political  Economy  (1836) and Value of Money (1840).

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. 797

-Smiles, Samuel
  Self-Help, ch.11.