Quotes About Discovery

What if . . . you come to the wild and discover that it is not wild at all? What if half the world is here before you?

I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.

groundbreaking, earth-shattering invention.

Her fingertips stumbled over the key she'd found years ago. She liked having it. A fib for the chain. Or a talisman. A reminder that secrets can sometimes be discovered when one looks closely at ordinary things.

It is not the sort of place where one would expect to find a witch. But a witch did live there, though she is not buried there.

But she liked having it. A fob for the chain. Or a talisman, maybe. A reminder that secrets can sometimes be discovered when one looks closely at ordinary things.

Katherine Kurtz

We have searched the wide world over and not found forgetfulness.

What the public wants is a little intellectual 'kick', and nothing else has quite the kick of mathematics.

Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory.

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply our notes of our observations. This view has been held, in one form or another, by many philosophers of high reputation from Plato onwards, and I shall use the language which is natural to a man who holds it.

The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done.

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

I've had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one's very door or perhaps in one's very bed. I'm still a man on the run, but I shall try to stop and wait.

I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart.

Mais la Terre serait plate si personne ne se posait de questions dessus.

?övalyelerin ve ?sa'n?n güzel ülkelerini tan?mak nasip olmay?nca, böyle lügat y???nlar? aras?nda yürümek ?u ana kadar bu gezegende tan?d???m en sarho? edici ?ey.

It takes sometime and a lot of looking around but you eventually find that your home is alot more just the house you live in.

La educación es, tal vez, la forma más alta de buscar a Dios.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.