Quotes About Discovery

You must follow the path that opens to you and you must never stop. And it will demand that you shed your skin, over and over and over again. Your skin must be shed for that skin is not the skin of a writer; it is the skin of whatever you were before.

If the human race is to continue for another million years, we will have to boldly go where no one has gone before

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

In his anguish, he prayed to God to restore his sight, and swore that if he was made able to see again he would only work with His creation and not with man's creation, for the rest of his life. After a few days his sight was restored and he kept his promise. He became a modern "wanderer", walking across America and inspiring a whole movement dedicated to the preservation of natural wilderness. As he himself said of these travels: "Going out, I discovered that I was really going in.

The schools at Wittenberg and Geneva were like Reformation theology flywheels, their influence spreading far and wide and deep. Luther and Calvin were interested in reforming not simply their respective cities of Wittenberg and Geneva; they were interested in the message spreading. Likewise, they were not content that the gospel be discovered for their generation alone. They were equally concerned about the next generation.

Giant northern elephant seals] were presumed extinct as late as 1912 when a group of eight seals was spotted on Guadalupe Island in the South Pacific by a Smithsonian expedition, which shot seven of them! Fortunately they missed one and failed to spot a few others.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Genetic palaeontology brings clarity to a field of near-medieval confusion. The

whatever is done cannot be undone, but whatever is lost can sometimes be found.

I searched until I panted for breath, but could not find it. The solid stone structure was nowhere to be seen. The house was gone - and Merlin with it.

Your faith is admirable, Pelleas. But I know nothing of sorcery. As it is, I have not been able to discover how the spell may be broken or how Merlin may be released from it.

Had he but known that before the day was over he would discover the hidden dimensions of the universe, Kit might have been better prepared.

Just when I begin to imagine I have achieved some pinnacle of understanding, reached the summit of the highest climb . . . I scramble the last few feet to the top only to see that I have merely gained a foothold on a narrow plateau and that entire new mountain ranges rise before me, serried ranks of peaks, each one higher than the last.

Had he but known that before the day was over he would discover the hidden dimensions of the universe, Kit might have been better prepared. At least, he would have brought an umbrella.