Quotes About Discovery

I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!

Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.

The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.

Anything worth reading is not only worth reading twice, but worth reading again and again. If a book is worthwhile, then you will always be able to make new discoveries in it and find things in it that you didn't notice before, even though you have read it many times.

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

The way of science is paved with discarded theories which were once declared self-evident;

It seems as though a happy dispensation from my scientific guiding star allowed me to discover this error myself. But let younger investigators be warned by this example, as they strive impatiently to publish their results after long years of frustration. Let them test their findings doubly and trebly before they regard any interpretation as certain. For often nature reaches her goal by another path, where man cannot see his way

Es ist interessanter, einen Apfel auf dem Mond zu finden als einen Mondstein.

If we are not aware of this wall, achieving inner peace may take much longer than necessary, as it did with Jane and her father. Once we recognize and own the fact that we may have a wall, bringing it down becomes our greatest desire, for this wall covers a very significant door, a door we subconsciously yearn to open and enter. Inside the door is our most rare treasure.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

What are you looking for?" Wade asks, seeing me peer under his couch. "Huh?" I turn back to him. "Oh, uh…I'm just checking out the rest of the place." I suddenly feel Eva rustle around in her bag. When I look down, she peeks out at me with sleepy eyes and then lazily glances over at Wade. When she sees the Muppets hanging on the wall behind him, she cocks her head

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

Hi, sorry to bother you. I'm Tyler Johnson. I'm looking for my dad. I thought he might be over here." Tyler Johnson was as big as his father but a lot better looking, with his father's dark hair and brown eyes. The way Buck might have looked twenty years ago. "Your father's over there in the corner," Call said. "He's about to go to jail for assaulting Ms. Sinclair.

Why are we doing the? I asked. Because looking aat a dead shark will tell us something about the ones that are still alive, Robin said.

I never wanted you lost, Em, only to find me.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer. I would put my sisters.

We are all heading toward the same destination," Tadis said. "That is the least significant. What is most interesting is our journey. When you come to see this, then you've learned real magic.

walking on boulevards and beaches, examining postcards, studying angles of light and shadow

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

READING SHOULD NOT BE PRESENTED TO CHILDREN AS A CHORE OR A DUTY. IT SHOULD BE OFFERED TO THEM AS A PRECIOUS GIFT.