Urs Fischer Quotes

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

Eureka [I have found it]

If you tell people what everything is before they have a chance to experience it, then I feel like it's a much different experience.

The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.

Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

I like to explore things.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

I'm on a search for the truth.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.