Quotes About Search

no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It is a rule.

This was one of those days when I thought that maybe a new life, a different life, wouldn't be so bad. But where the hell had I put the receipt, and could you return something that was over twenty years old? Where do you go to get a new life when your old one has you so puzzled you don't know how to fix it? Wish I knew.

I'm a refugee from happiness with nowhere else to go.

And so he found himself always in search of the perfect love, always unable to find it or sustain it, and predisposed to reenact his mother's bewildering abandonment of him.

Endless is the search of truth.

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

That's the story I am dying to knit together, if I could only find the pattern.

Its women shall be the voluptuaries not of pleasure but of pain, doomed to hunt for what they least dare to find.

Humility! The last trap that awaits the ego in search of absolute truth.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living. Perhaps if I could die or go mad it would provide a focus for all the feelings I have which find no proper outlet.

Is That All There Is?

What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

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

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.