Quotes About Discovery

We have entered the Age of Light. The ages of steam and coal are long gone. With oil clinging to power, light is emerging as our deus ex machine. Light goes where nothing else can, gets there faster than anything else could, and brings back the images. If there are limits to light, other than its cosmic speed limit, we have not tested them. If there is a final answer to the question "What is light?" we have not found it.

He disappears, and her endless wanderings in search of him take her to the moon, the sun, and the wind.

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better the secret entrusted to them at the outset; their creative effort goes into an unending exegesis, a commentary on that one couplet of poetry assigned to them.

Not until 1761 did any grammarian settle on the eight that became the canonical parts of speech in English. He was the same man who discovered oxygen: Joseph Priestley (1733–1804). In his Rudiments of English Grammar, he listed these: • noun • adjective • pronoun • verb • adverb • preposition • conjunction • interjection15

Education can be glorious. At its best, to quote Roman philosopher Lucretius, it is a "voyage in mind throughout infinity.

Mona leaned over and picked it up. Inside were hairy spiders. She shook the bottle. No, it was empty.

Although it may be disconcerting to find that something you have believed is mistaken, it is at the same time thrilling, because it opens up new worlds of re-evaluation and fresh thinking, new understanding and insight.

The Nature of the Beast. I have always been curious about other human species

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit? A: Peanut shells on the floor.

Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?

Cultivating self-love is an odyssey with moments of difficulty and joy. It's an excursion into knowing ourselves, learning to accept and deal with what we discover... and struggling with our fear of allowing in a little madness to set us free.

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Orellana's achievement would later be called one of the world's greatest explorations, "something more than a journey, and more like a miraculous event.

Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, would

I had a teacher who used to reflect back my questions that way. I thought it was the Socratic method, and it impressed me immensely, until I found out he used it whenever he didn't know the answer.

Nothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues. A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others, and may chance to make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.