Quotes About Discovery

façades of the unknown city loomed up before him, harboring unimaginable wonders—his whole life had been leading up to this.

L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it.

In short, the history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the interruption of events in favour of stable structures.

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I'm well aware that I shouldn't be telling you these things; rather, I want to tell you these things, but I'm not certain they're worth publishing. I'm a bit terrified at the idea that one day they'll be discovered.

Order, though practical and effi-cient, can imprison. Although it promotes movement, in the end it can also freeze movement. The check-list, though es-sential for action, can sterilize discovery. An atmosphere penetrated with disorder, by contrast, is like an apparatus that has a certain play in it, and it is precisely this play that provokes invention.

Right Now I Am Increasing, Learning & Discovering all Solutions for My Life Purpose & Happiness.

Laundromat, mini-mart, nail salon, pet shop, Books of Darkness.

But you're - your'e not-' Ryan stops, swallows, starts again. 'You're not human,' he says.

I might having something else for you. Follow me.

I. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. II. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. III. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S THREE LAWS

In my field, physics, I see that most of us are engage in physics not for the money but for the sheer joy of discovery an innovation.

Historically, with each new scientific discovery, a new model of the brain has emerged. One of the earliest models of the brain was the "homunculus," a little man who lived inside the brain and made all the decisions. This picture was not very helpful, since it did not explain what was happening in the brain of the homunculus.

he was able to estimate the size of the nucleus of the atom. It was one hundred thousand times smaller than the atom itself.

Why go to the stars? Because we are the descendants of those primates who chose to look over the next hill. Because we won't survive here indefinitely. Because the stars are there, beckoning with fresh horizons. —JAMES AND GREGORY BENFORD

to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Since Einstein derived his famous equation, literally millions of experiments have confirmed his revolutionary ideas.

Each of the genes of the human body is spelled out explicitly in this dictionary, but what each does is still largely a mystery.

In other words, the reason why the string theory cannot be solved is that twenty-first mathematics has not yet been discovered.

The problem is that while twenty-first-century physics fell accidentally into the twentieth century, twenty-first-century mathematics hasn't been invented yet. It seems that we may have to wait for twenty-first-century mathematics before we can make any progress, or the current generation of physicists must invent twenty-first-century mathematics on their own.

How wonderful that we have met with paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. —NIELS BOHR

A quantum theory of gravity that unites it with the other forces is the Holy Grail of physics.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. —JOHN WHEELER

If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. – ALBERT EINSTEIN