Quotes About Discovery

Mientras hacía este libro aprendí sobre todo dos cosas. La primera es que no existe nada, ni una sola cosa, que no sea increíble e interesante cuando te detienes a examinarla... La otra cosa que aprendí es que tenemos una suerte bárbara de estar aquí.

I know we're not the first to discover this,' Gene Cernan radioed back from about 29,000 kilometres, 'but we'd like to confirm, from the crew of America, that the world is round.

The image was like finding an automobile factory in your closet.

I was taught how to tie up the loin with a butcher's looping knot and was so excited by the discovery that I went home and practiced. I told Elisa about my achievement. "I tied up everything," I said. "A leg of lamb, some utensils, a chair. My wife came home, and I tied up her too." Elisa shook her head. "Get a life," she said and returned to her task.

I had it perfect the first time but I had to lose it to know it.

I had it perfect the first time, but I had to lose it to know.

Well, I went for a ride but I didn't find my car

If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.

New Rule: Instead of using their $10 billion atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider to re-create the Big Bang by melting atom parts in temperatures a million times hotter than the sun, scientists should not do that. I'm just sayin' it sounds dangerous. I'm as interested as the next guy in determining the origin of matter, but first couldn't we solve some simple mystery, like why some-detector batteries always die at four a.m.?

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Scientific Progress goes boink?

For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

Watcha doin'?" "Looking for frogs." "How come?" "I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.

This is where dad burried the little raccoon. I don't even know he existed a few days ago and now he's gone forever. It's like I found him for no reason. I had to say good-bye as soon as I said hello. Still...in a sad, awful, terrible way, I'm happy I met him. What a stupid world.

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy, let's go exploring!

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

You trip over a word while carrying a tray of vocabulary out to the pool only to discover that broken glass is a good topic.

You are turning me like someone turning a globe in her hand, and yes, I have another side like a China no one, not even me, has ever seen. So describe to me what's there, say what you are looking at and I will close my eyes so I can see it too, the oxcarts and all the lively flags. I love the sound of your voice like a little saxophone telling me what I could never know unless I dug a hole all the way down through the core of myself.