Quotes About Discovery

Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown.

Az a helyzet, hogy sokan kerül? úton találják meg a vágyat. Ha a vágy nem találja meg önt, akkor önnek kell elindulnia, hogy megkeresse, és ez az út azért különösen nehéz, mert a cél ismeretlen. A lényeg mégis az, hogy útnak induljunk.

I'd thought I had a boring life before I came to Camp Pinetree--now I was sure of it. Worse yet, I was discovering it was even more boring than I'd ever suspected!

As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.

I don't have a story," I said. "I'm still waiting for one.

The world is full of places I haven't been.

What surprised her the most about her quiet winter and spring was how often she thought of her mother. It was like discovering a new vein of grief. Maybe it was because mourning a marriage was like mourning a parent—you miss the person you wished you had, as well as the one you did.

Robbie pointed with his sneaker. "Looks like a Bengal tiger." "Tiger?" we all shouted.

revelations that were unfolding.

You never know what you can do," he says, "until you get it done.

In the desert, I had discovered the West of my imagination, my childhood canyon infinitely magnified. I went there for inspiration and insight.

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.

Discovery is discernment, selection.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.

Meine Füße, tastend beim ersten Kontakt mit bosnischem Boden: Alles klar. Trägt.

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.