Quotes About Discovery

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

Novelty in creative endeavors usually arises from routine -- you have to be familiar with something before you know what is novel.

La riqueza representa el momento en que uno descubre, por primera vez, un gran deseo por la espiritualidad y siente gran alegría. Ocurre así porque creemos poder alcanzar la espiritualidad utilizando nuestro ego. Estamos dispuestos a leer, a aprender, a hacer todo tipo de cosas. La escasez sobreviene cuando vemos que no podremos alcanzar la espiritualidad, a menos que reconozcamos nuestro ego y consigamos el atributo de dar.

good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

The way the creative process works is that .you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said.

It was as if he had been assigned to take apart a fiendishly complicated alarm clock to see why it wasn't working, only to discover that an important part of the clock was inside his own mind.

He found a book called Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason.

In the interest of clarity, they'd hoped to preserve the full name, but they discovered a problem doing so when they set out to create an Internet address: investorsexchange.com.

It confirmed Biederman's sense that "most advances in science come not from eureka moments but from 'hmmm, that's funny.

If the highly paid, publicly scrutinized employees of a business that had existed since the 1860s could be misunderstood by their market, who couldn't be? If the market for baseball players was inefficient, what market couldn't be? If a fresh analytical approach had led to the discovery of new knowledge in baseball, was there any sphere of human activity in which it might not do the same?

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

genomic sequencing

People always find it so frustrating that there's no structure they can see, that they just have to follow the river downstream and see what they find. They want to know the plot so they can guess the end, because they're afraid of what it might be. I can understand that, even though I know it's not the way things work. I never know what the hell's going to happen next, but I can live with that.

A true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try to hold onto. In seeking after what the soul desires, we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.

Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.

A popular children's puzzle shows six fishermen whose lines are tangled together to form a sort of maze. One of the lines has caught a fish; the problem is to find which fisherman it belongs to. You are supposed to do this by following each line through the maze, which may take up to six tries, depending on your luck. It is obviously easier to start at the other end and trace the line from the fish to the fisherman, as you have only one possible starting place, not six.

A moment later, the world's first all-purpose human being strode eastward, whistling. 'A tasty world,' it reflected cheerfully. 'A very tasty world.' 'You said it, Cornelius!

When I had first been hurled into the world of the 1970s I had thought I found Utopia. And now I was discovering that it was only a Utopia for some. Shaw wanted a Utopia which would exist for all.

The cave stretches back a long way. All we can do is press on until we find its far wall," Elric said. "Let's hope that its far wall lies not downwards," Moonglum said ironically as he motioned Elric to lead on.

Silently descending were three massive apelike creatures, borne on great leathery wings. Shaarilla recognized them and gasped. "Clakars!

Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still. And it is still because death, when it comes, is always over. There's only terror in it if you fear it and ever since my first death, Wes' death, I have never feared it. It is simply the end of a story, and if you've loved the story then it is sad. And sometimes, as it was with Wes, it is an agony of sadness.

It does seem a heavy burden that in every new life a soul must search all over again to find its true self in a different body.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.