Quotes About Discovery

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

I have never understood those dreams of a completely original form of expression. The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say. Then he uses the old language in his urgency and the old language is translated from within.

Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories.

Their love was great. Most people experience love without becoming aware of the extraordinary nature of this emotion. But to them—and this made them exceptional—the moments when passion visited their doomed human existence like a breath of eternity were moments of revelation, of continually new discoveries about themselves and life.

Don't you know me by now, Angel? I never do what I'm meant for.

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

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I know the power of discovery.

he referred to Project Blue Book as going from the investigation of the unexplained to the "explanation of the uninvestigated.

You have to get out in some rain to find your rainbows

ridden the Star Ferry from Hong Kong to Kowloon and back, had suffered two hours of rain in Hong Kong's Wanchai District, had gone up and down the Peak Tram, and had arrived at Hong Kong's Jetfoil terminal just in time to catch the last high-speed boat to Macau.

That was the difference between science and the intelligence field. Scientists came up with an answer and used it to find facts while intelligence operatives came up with facts and used them to find an answer.

We learn of great things by little experiences.

We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.

If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.

I am glad you found your way in here, for I am sure there is much that will interest you. These companions, and he laid his hand on some of the books, have been good friends to me and for some years past, ever since I had the good idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure.

Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results today! Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?

There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.

Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?

The time is come, I fear, when I must open the parcel, and know what is written.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.