Quotes About Discovery

He wanted to know things, not reveal them.

Your destiny is to find the truth.

Without delay, Tilly entered the ninth opening, a number that she knew from Baraccus had great meaning on things having to do with magic.

It was like finding the other half of myself and being complete, whole, for the first time in my life.

Over the years it became clear that sometimes you fall in love only to realize you don't even like the person.

I used to lie on his bed for an hour before bedtime or on a Saturday afternoon and read to him and then when he graduated to books with chapters sometimes he read. I'd look over at him, at his entire body, which appeared to have grown in the last few minutes; his lips moved and his eyes danced and darted across the page and I'd think: my son can read; he can comprehend things, he is making discoveries and he will soon have even more opinions about the world.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now it seems there are lots of other worlds as well. When I think I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel,' he paused, then added, 'well, humble, I suppose. And very angry, of course.

Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.

It's quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to , but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things said Rob Anybody, that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.

Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

It was amazing how many people spent their whole lives in places where they never intended to stay.

For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?

Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.