Quotes About Discovery

GüneÅŸ'in yap?s?nda önce helyum bulunduÄŸu saptanm??t?r.(Yunanl?lar?n güneÅŸ tanr?s?na Helios ad?n? vermeleri nedeniyle helyum denilmiÅŸtir.)

Nuestro planeta y nuestro sistema solar se hallan rodeados por un nuevo mundo oceánico, las profundidades del espacio. Y no es más infranqueable que el de otras épocas.

There is an established framework in which any scientist can prove another wrong and make sure everyone else knows about it.

We all have a tendency to succumb to a state of despair about the destructiveness and shortsightedness of the human species. I've certainly done my share (and on grounds I still consider well-based). But one of the discoveries of my illness is the extraordinary community of goodness to which people in my situation owe their lives.

This zest to explore and exploit, however thoughtless its agents may have been, has clear survival value. It is not restricted to any one nation or ethnic group. It is an endowment that all members of the human species hold in common.

Pliny suggested that the ostrich, then newly discovered, was the result of a cross between a giraffe and a gnat. (It would, I suppose, have to be a female giraffe and a male gnat.) In practice there must be many such crosses which have not been attempted because of a certain understandable lack of motivation.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land. —T. H. Huxley, 1887 The

The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.

A God of the Gaps is assigned responsibility for what we do not yet understand.

Scientific insight made him feel something, a soaring sensation, a recognition that he could only compare to falling in love. And as he used to say: "When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

En la ciencia no hay preguntas prohibidas, no hay temas demasiado sensibles o delicados para ser explorados, no hay verdades sagradas.

la ciencia es más que un cuerpo de conocimiento, es una manera de pensar.

We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

To read is to voyage through time.

We are the way for the universe to know itself.

So beautiful! I had no idea! I had no idea...

Science exacts a substantial entry fee in effort and tedium in exchange for its insights.

True? Yes, I suppose-unfit somehow-anyway.... So I came here. There was nowhere else I could go. I was played out. You know what played out is? My youth was suddenly gone up the water-sprout, and-I met you. You said you needed somebody. Well, I needed some-body, too. I thanked God for you, because you seemed to be gentle-a cleft in the rock of the world that I could hide in! But I guess I was asking, hoping-too much! Kiefaber, Stanley and Shaw have tied an old tin can to the tail of the kite.

And in the spring, it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before!

Alguien escribió una vez: Somos todos niños en un vasto jardín de infantes, procurando formar el nombre de Dios con letras de un rompecabezas que está equivocado.

Cu toÅ£ii suntem cobai în laboratorul lui Dumnezeu. Umanitatea nu-i decât o invenÅ£ie aflat? în plin? formare.

T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

Mystery is alive in the moment, in the here and now. It just simply lies on the other side of a barrier of courage.