Quotes About Discovery

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

Something nasty in the woodshed.

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.' Flora

carefully pulled himself up to look into the horizontal ventilation

Die Menschheit werde lernen, meinte er. Sie lerne etwas langsamer, als er angenommen habe. "Es liegt daran, daß die Tüchtigen ständig versuchen, das wenige von der Welt zu verändern, was sie kennen. Eines Tages werden sie die Welt entdecken, statt sie zu verbessern. Und nicht mehr vergessen, was sie schon entdeckt haben.

That's because the most competent among them will always try to change that small part of the world which they know. One of these days they'll discover the world instead of improving it, and not forget what they already discovered.

I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

She'd explained to Annabelle that she'd discovered her fiancé was cheating on her a few days before the wedding. When Annabelle had asked her why she hadn't simply canceled the ceremony, she'd shrugged and said, "My dress had a ten-foot train.

One day you're going through life and everything seems perfectly ordinary, and then you stumble across a person who makes you feel so alive….

No one anticipated that this crazy push for speed—speed of the technology itself, and speed to discovery—would also be the root of personal disasters, of uncontrollable compulsivity, of endless pursuit culminating in an ultimate depression and despair.

Look for the copper tablet-box, Undo its bronze lock, Open the door to its secret, Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and read it, The story of that man, Gilgamesh, who went through all kinds of sufferings.

it is pure potential. Every ball or skein of yarn holds something inside it, and the great mystery of what that might be can be almost spiritual

You all have another month to encourage these kids to do what they do best-" "Not just what they do best!" E.D. protested. Jake nodded. "If that's all they do, how will they ever find out the rest of who they are?

The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.