Quotes About Discovery

Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.

I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force.

He likes to quote the Sufi poet Rumi: 'Travel leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller', an aphorism also attributed to the Moroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta.

It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville.

Indeed, Walcott's discovery turned Darwin's anticipated bottom-up—or small changes first, big changes later—pattern on its head.

Neither wanted to claim that these discoveries "proved" the existence of God. They cautioned that science cannot "prove" anything with absolute certainty.

Thus, discovery of an embryo in the earliest stages of cell division shows beyond a doubt that Precambrian sedimentary rocks can, under the right circumstances, preserve soft-bodied organisms.

that there are no biological forms left to discover. He means, rather, that we have good reason to conclude that such discoveries will not alter the largely discontinuous pattern that has emerged.

with the Darwinian view for yet another reason. The Chengjiang discoveries intensify the top-down pattern of appearance

As Chen explained, the Chinese fossils turn Darwin's tree of life "upside down.

In any case, the discovery in China of chordates, and other previously undiscovered phyla in the Cambrian, only accentuates the puzzling top-down pattern of appearance that other Cambrian discoveries had previously established.

Since the most exquisitely delicate structures, as well as embryonic phases of growth of the most perishable nature, have been preserved from very early deposits, we have no right to infer the disappearance of types because their absence disproves some favorite [i.e., Darwinian] theory."25

The discovery of the fine tuning of the universe, like the discovery of the beginning of the universe itself, represents an effect that requires a cause with specific attributes, including both transcendence and intelligence.

A PUZZLING PATTERN Over the years, as paleontologists have reflected on the overall pattern of the Precambrian–Cambrian fossil record in light of Walcott's discoveries, they too have noted several features of the Cambrian explosion that are unexpected from a Darwinian point of view11 in particular: (1) the sudden appearance of Cambrian animal forms; (2)

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

Flight is romance—not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

behind ourself, concealed—should startle most," wrote Emily Dickinson

T. S. Eliot said it: "Old men ought to be explorers.")