Quotes About Discovery

Discovery is dangerous Ã¢â'¬Â¦ 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

Salad-anna-sconn, lookit yurr 'ee come.

Aye, you'll get t'the bottom of things, won't ye, sir!

A trip to the market in the morning to buy bread, an afternoon spent reading in a cafe—nothing was routine; a strange place helped you find the poetry in everyday life.

Move out of Your Comfort Zone

It seems that most of the decisions we make in life are similar to backing up in the night and hitting something, and then getting out to see what it was.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread, If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek." – Rumi (12th century Sufi poet)

Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

When NASA launched an internal investigation in the wake of the Challenger explosion, they made a startling discovery – many who worked on the project had misgivings about whether or not the shuttle was ready to be launched, but didn't speak up for fear that doing so would hamper their careers and make it seem like they did not have faith in the NASA program.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." – Isaac Newton

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

I looked far and wide For a heart to stay true, I found it at last When at last I found you. Though I may wander In paths far from you I'll always return To the heart that stays true.

May your first word be adventure and last word love.

In 1875, when young Max Planck announced his interest in physics, the chairman of his physics department suggested he study something more exciting. Physics, he said, was just about complete: "All the important discoveries have already been made.

She's their secret weapon! They call her Trasha, and she's eight years old. I hear they discovered her at the Pacific Mall arcade, playing Drum-Mania. She has so much A.D.D., it's not even funny.

Scott suddenly realized for the first time, that all second cup exteriors do not lead to the same second cup interior.

Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior?

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

Inquiry doesn't have a motive. It doesn't teach a philosophy. It's just investigation.

We're all five-year-olds. We don't know how to do this thing called life. We're just learning how.

A certain peace had come over me. I was discovering that time, long-term time made of days, weeks and months, and not of horrific moments as before, was operating in my favor. Nothing else was, but that didn't worry me. Time was enough. I clung on to time, and consequently to learning, the only human activity that makes time our ally.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

As in all callings, poetry secures a kind of ecstasis. There may be a wiser vantage, but we haven't discovered one yet. Perception leads to further perception. Perceive. Perceive. "See what the grass would see if it had eyes," writes Oppen.