Quotes About Discovery

Who Do You Think You Are?

The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who'd been dieting for six months, only to discover she'd gained four pounds.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

I hope there isn't,' [a final answer] said Colin. "I'm for uncertainty. As soon as you think you know, you're done for. You don't listen and you can't hear. If you're certain of anything, you shut the door on the possibility of revelation, of discovery. You can think. You can believe. But you can't, you mustn't, 'know'. There's the real Entropy.

But what can we do?" said Susan. "Think, and hope," said Cadellin. "I would rather seek and find," said Uthecar.

People didn't just hand you their secrets. You had to go hunting for them.

But what if Darius really was messing with us? What if the clues he was feeding us were deliberate fakes? What if he knew he was in Arizona all along, and was dropping these clues to throw me off the scent, knowing I would be the one person in the world who would do anything I could to find him?

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. — AndrÉ Gide

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Technology is anything invented after you were born.

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

Alan MacDonald

A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.'

Everything looked wonderful until I noticed the anchovies. "Really?" I said. "Hairy little fish?" "It's not a real Caesar salad without anchovies." "I appreciate hairy dogs; I don't appreciate hairy fish.

With all the apps available on our cell phones, it seems to me we're getting closer and closer to Gene Roddenberry's vision of Starfleet tricorders.

Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam,

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

She found in him the peace she so desperately sought but never really found in herself.

La opinión tan generalizada de que los científicos proceden siempre de un hecho bien demostrado a otro hecho bien demostrado, y nunca se dejan influir por una conjetura no probada, es bastante errónea. A condición de que quede bien claro qué son hechos probados y qué son conjeturas, no existe ningún peligro. Las conjeturas son de suma importancia, porque sugieren posibles vías de investigación.

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume.

No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.