Quotes About Discovery

Ninguna persona inteligente sabe a qué quiere dedicarse hasta los veinte o treinta años.

Inside, Tim saw a small room bathed in green light. Four technicians in lab coats were peering into double-barreled stereo microscopes, or looking at images on high resolution video screens. The room was filled with yellow stones. The stones were in glass shelves; in cardboard boxes; in large pull-out trays. Each stone was tagged and numbered in black ink.

Over the path, a crude hand-painted sign read: "Welcome to Jurassic Park.

I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason.

That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.

But magic is sometimes all about knowing where the secret door is, and how to open it. With that, you're gone

Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

Cassandra wanted the same night over and over again but she believed in some hidden way that if she had the same night enough times it would all crack open, and something better than love would be revealed. Something better than music.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it. Why deny yourself all that pleasure? so look around tonight or this weekend, see what catches your fancy on the bookshelf, at the library, or in the bookstore. Maybe try something a little unusual, a little different. And then don't stop. Do it again, with a new book or an old author the following week. Go on--be bold, be insatiable, be restlessly, unashamedly promiscuous.

I wonder' is the true work of the entrepreneurial personality." She tried to

As a result, the world is a continuing surprise, a treasure hunt to The Entrepreneur.

Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?

Me gustaría saner qué pasa realmente en un libro cuando está cerrado [...] algo debe pasar, porque cuando lo abro aparece de pronto una historia entera.

Yes, she thought about death because she had discovered something else as well: there are certain treasures that kill you if you can't share them with others.

Forse lo specchio porterà la mia immagine al principe. Forse può capitare che guardi in alto quando lo specchio sorvola il suo cielo, e allora vedrà la mia immagine. Forse seguirà lo specchio nel suo cammino e mi troverà qui.

No one in Fantastica knows what road you people must take to get back to your world.

Un día nos dimos cuenta de que faltaba una palabra. Nadie nos la había robado, tampoco la habíamos olvidado. Sencillamente ya no estaba. Pero sin esa palabra no podíamos seguir actuando, porque ya nada daba sentido. Era precisamente la palabra por la que todo se relaciona con todo. ¿Comprende, bella dama? Desde entonces viajamos de un lado a otro para encontrarla de nuevo.

?nsan hep yeni bir ?eyler al?rsa, can? s?k?lmaz.

I wonder what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures and deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut up in a book.

Bastian miró el libro. <>, se dijo, <>.

Even finding that calorie restriction alone extended life was an accidental discovery. In 1933, during the Great Depression, scientist Clive McCay at Cornell University wanted to keep his lab going but didn't have enough money for food for all the animals. So he made half of them go on a 35 percent calorie restriction diet. The mice that were forced on calorie restriction lived 30 percent longer than the fully fed group.

Michael Gruber

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.