Discovered

Famous quotes containing the word discovered:

“If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, have discovered only the shores of America.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.”
—Jay Dratler, U.S. screenwriter, Samuel Hoffenstein (1889–1947)

“The two great things yet to be discovered are these—The Art of rejuvenating old age in men, & oldageifying youth in books.—Who in the name of the trunk-makers would think of reading Old Burton were his book published for the first to day.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)