Quotes About Discovery

I was afraid to try Pellegrino for the first time." She looks over at me nervously—expecting me to… what, agree?—then at McDermott, who offers her a wan, tight smile. "But once I did, it was… fine.

This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength.

drive past Stansbury and make a right onto Ventura and let it take me through Studio City, where the boulevard became Cahuenga, and then head into Hollywood, cruising along Sunset until I hit Beverly Glen

As the Navajo and Christian activist Mark Charles explains, when citizens of the thirteen British colonies composed the Declaration of Independence, among their complaints against King George was that he didn't allow them to apply the Doctrine of Discovery to the people of the lands to their west.22 The Declaration described the indigenous peoples as "merciless Indian savages," clearly not counted among the "all men" whom God supposedly "created equal.

We are not scholars researching an ancient Chinese emperor — a matter of objectivity and disinterestedness; we are sons and daughters who want to get to know our father — someone with whom we have an essential relationship.

one of the truest, most honest sentences of our lives: "Wow, we don't really know.

All my road is before me, but All familiar paths lie far behind me. My map's here in my hand, but I have ventured past its tattered edges.

And, most significantly for the libertarian movement, he read Murray Rothbard's article in Ramparts magazine and discovered that he wasn't crazy and he wasn't alone—that there was a real link between the right-wing spirit of his old ideological home and the new left he was increasingly attracted to.166

The closet door was closed. She always kept it closed. She'd been the one to open the door and find her father hanging from the rod by the loop of his belt.

we all have one Jane Doe out there. That one girl who will change our lives. Some people die not knowing who she is. At least you found yours.

If you were to head out into the cosmos, traveling ever farther, would you find that space goes on indefinitely, or that it abruptly ends?

Solving problems, learning how the universe is put together-that's what had always captivated me.

Religion is not meant to explain the universe. It cannot replace scientific research.

My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

If superstring theory is proven correct, we will be forced to accept that the reality we have known is but a delicate chiffon draped over a thick and richly textured cosmic fabric.

the Nobel Prize–winning particle physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi greeted the discovery of the muon with a less than enthusiastic Who ordered that? Nevertheless, there it was. And more was to follow.

Some people consider facts to be dangerous things that must be locked away and carefully guarded. But I consider mysteries a far greater threat. We should seek answers wherever possible, regardless of the consequences. —GILBERTUS ALBANS, secret Erasmus dialogues

The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risks is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. —Planetologist Pardot Kynes, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son Liet

The path to human advancement relies upon discovery, and great discoveries often entail great risks. —the Azhar Book

Innovations seem to have a life and a sentience of their own. When conditions are right, a radical new idea—a paradigm shift—may appear simultaneously from many minds at once. Or it may remain secret in the thoughts of one man for years, decades, centuries…until someone else thinks of the same thing.

In the vast canvas of the Imperium, no explorer or prospector had found melange on any other planet, nor had anyone succeeded in synthesizing a substitute, despite centuries of attempts

The individual is shocked by the overwhelming discovery of his own mortality. The species, however, is different. It need not die. —PARDOT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer

History is a moving target that changes as fresh details are discovered, as errors are corrected, as popular attitudes shift. Historians carve the sculpture that is Truth not out of granite, but out of wet clay.