Quotes About Search

traced far enough, past hope, back across belief, it ends always at desire

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

The nature of life on Earth and the search for life elsewhere are two sides of the same question—the search for who we are.

His argument was not with God but with those who believed that our understanding of the sacred had been completed. Science's permanently revolutionary conviction that the search for truth never ends seemed to him the only approach with sufficient humility to be worthy of the universe that it revealed.

It is striking that the observational search for extraterrestrial life began in the same generation as the invention of the telescope, and with the greatest theoretician of the age.

She found what she had been searching for.

La búsqueda de inteligencia extraterrestre —que todos abreviaban con las siglas SETI

As we identify the planets of other stars, as we find other words of roughly the size and mass of Earth, we will scrutinize them for life.

Somewhere else there might be very exotic biologies and technologies and societies. In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding, we are a little lonely; and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is the search for a generally acceptable cosmic context for the human species. In the deepest sense, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

we are privileged to live among brilliant and passionately inquisitive people, and in time when the search for knowledge is generally prized

Darken Rahl, son of Panis Rahl, has put the three boxes of Orden in play," Kahlan said simply. "I have come in search of the great wizard.

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

WHERE'S MY COW?! IS THAT MY COW?! HRRRUUUUGGGH!!!! THAT'S NOT MY COW! THAT'S A HIPPOPOTAMOUS!

You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. You mean the sledgehammer, sir? Yes.

WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW? 

Now look , snapped the Dean, we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?

Trouble is always easy to find when you have enough people looking for it.

Humans are always slightly lost. It's a basic characteristic.

And his head is on fire with new things[...]he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of a new shell, but now he looks at the sky and knows that no shell will ever be big enough, ever.

He had spent years in search of boredom, but had never achieved it. Just when he thought he had it in his grasp his life would suddenly become full of near-terminal interest.

He whispered to himself, "If I do not find the Way, I will not return to Kapilavatthu.

I laugh when I think how I once sought paradise as a realm outside of the world of birth and death. It is right in the world of birth and death that the miraculous truth is revealed. -But this is not the laughter of someone who suddenly acquires a great fortune; neither is it the laughter of one who has won a victory. It is, rather, the laughter of one who; after having painfully searched for something for a long time, finds it one morning in the pocket of his coat. -Thich Nhat Hanh

There's a hole in my pocket," Ringo puzzled. "Maybe that's the way out?