Quotes About Discovery

she was five years old and got her first library card, which to a bookish little girl was like a religious experience.

You've been there before?" "Twenty-odd years ago on the U-2 program." Ross was intrigued; he's still a collegiate at heart — young enough to be eager-beaverish. "What's it like up there?" "The end of the world.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

Sometimes it seems as if the best technology is still only catching up to what nature has already figured out.

This guy was like a sailor who had studied the compass and found that there was a fifth direction in which one could sail." (Jerry Juhl on being offered a job with Muppets, Inc.)

There's a story in all of us." Each

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness . . . the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness . . . the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Los objetivos son deshacerse de los pensamientos y las emociones negativos y descubrir la paz, la alegría y la felicidad interiores.

True science begins with observation.

Christian faith for me is no longer a static location but a great spiritual journey. And that changes everything.

You just sit down at the typewriter and follow the character around. It's like being a detective. You write page after page after page just finding out who they are. You wait for them to do something interesting.

When being lost seems So much more like being found, And you find all that is lost Is what weighed you down.

Afraid perhaps to come to where I've stopped in case you find into some slow and glowing countryside yourself escaping

There would just be... answers. You don't feel wonder at things you know the answer to. Life without wonder seems sad.

Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders.

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.

We are all cabinets of wonders.

I've been thinking, Christopher Robin,' said Pooh, 'which do you like best: old friends or new?' Christopher Robin thought and, after a long time, said: 'Well, I like new friends because you never quite know what they'll do next. But I like old friends, too, because, however long you've known them, you are always discovering things you didn't know before.