Quotes About Discovery

And inquiries into nature have the best result when they begin with physics and end in mathematics.

It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.

I had discovered the gossip test—what you are really interested in is what you gossip about.

It is amateurs who have one big bright beautiful idea that they can never abandon. Professionals know that they have to produce theory after theory before they are likely to hit the jackpot.

It took over twenty-five years for our model of DNA to go from being only rather plausible, to being very plausible (as a result of the detailed work on DNA fibers), and from there to being virtually certainly correct. Even then it was correct only in outline, not in

A rainbow of soil is under our feet; red as a barn and black as peat. It's yellow as lemon and white as the snow; bluish gray. So many colors below. Hidden in darkness as thick as the night; The only rainbow that can form without light. Dig you a pit, or bore you a hole, you'll find enough colors to well rest your soil.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

MARE'S NEST. He has found a mare's nest, and is laughing at the eggs; said of one who laughs without any apparent cause.

We don't invent morality; we discover it like we discover multiplication tables.

You wanderer on the path! There is no path, only wandering".

In fact, genetic medicine has brought the problems of rare genetic conditions right to my own door.

Discoveries about genetics are not limited to just those 6,000 conditions of a strongly hereditary nature, however. We are now in the midst of a genetic revolution that will touch all of us in numerous ways:

The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming

who seeks shall find; Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Across the margent of the world I fled,And troubled the gold gateways of the stars.

Todo le recibe como si le esperase desde siempre, y puede mirar a los perros y a los gatos frente a frente, lo cual nosotros no hacemos nunca. El niño pasa del sueño a la vigilia dentro de una misma palabra, sin ruptura, sin trauma, y va por la casa despertando a lo que siempre estuvo dormido, hasta que él llegó.

If you are looking for something that you have never found so far, the first step is to get lost.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Message From Mars Clifford D. Simak

He knew the particular and special solace of traveling down streets, pulling into parks, and slipping into restaurants that compose a living, breathing photo album of your path to the present.