Quotes About Discovery

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.

Before finding the one you have to find your furtre

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

Just when we think we have our own stories figured out, heroes arise in the most unexpected places.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.

People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds.

Her biggest fault - perplexing to this day - is that Mother loves to pick trash. Its an adventure, she says. You never know what surprises you'll find

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?

That was the difference between him and Woodward. Woodward went into a garage to find a source who could tell him what Nixon's men were up to. Bernstein walked in to find an eight-pound chain cut neatly in two and his bike gone.

Merry sighed. "Once again, Andrew, you've opened my eyes. To what, I'm not sure.

Ellis dutifully opens the top half of the bisected lid... and there's Jimmy Stoma. All things considered, he looks pretty darn spiffy. Better, in fact, than he did on some of his album covers. He's so lean and fit, you wouldn't guess he once outweighed Meat Loaf.

Poems that sustain our contemplation, disrupt our complacencies, and leave us changed" -Carl Phillips

There's a light that can make finding a thing look more than faintly like falling across it—you must kneel, make an offering. I threw my compass away years ago. I have passed through that light. —Carl Phillips, from "That it Might Save, or Drown Them", Wild is the West (?Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 23, 2018)

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.