Quotes About Discovery

I chose "Discovery" instead of "Invention" to suggest that science is the way it is not so much because of various adventitious historic acts of invention, but because of the way nature is. With all its imperfections, modern science is a technique that is sufficiently well tuned to nature so that it works—it is a practice that allows us to learn reliable things about the world. In this sense, it is a technique that was waiting for people to discover it.

The dream of a final theory inspires much of today's work in high-energy physics, and though we do not know what the final laws might be or how many years will pass before they are discovered, already in today's theories we think we are beginning to catch glimpses of the outlines of a final theory. The

after all, our purpose in theoretical physics is not just to describe the world as we find it, but to explain — in terms of a few fundamental principles — why the world is the way it is.

Los hombres no se contentan con consolarse mediante cuentos de dios y gigantes, o limitando sus pensamientos a los asuntos cotidianos de la vida. También construyen telescopios, satélites y aceleradores, y se sientan en sus escritorios durante horas interminables tratando de descifrar el significado de los datos que reúnen.

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings.

I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart.

We carry our own wilderness with us.

I had discovered that the concentration required for crossing new territory seemed to quell the phantoms, dim their shapes, and silence their whispers, which was probably the real reason why I had not headed back to Taparak when the weather turned.

There is something out there for me, he thought, and then he chided himself for the melodrama of the idea. There is something out there for everyone, everywhere, if they have the courage to look. He knew he was no different from anyone else. Perhaps he had simply become the victim of calenture, and had not realised it. He did not feel fevered and yet his compulsion was undeniably mazy.

Ays is my lost soul, he though, my lost soul wandering.

Now you have told me your story, I feel there's a reason behind everything that's happened to me. I don't know if I can make a difference to anything, but if people don't try, nothing will change. I'm eager to try. I want knowledge and strength. I want to go on from here one day and find the dark heart of Magravandias. I want to crush it." Taropat smiled. "I'm glad you're enjoying yourself.

I envy the fact that soon you will have your first sight of Mewt, of Jessapur and other countries. That first experience cannot be repeated-the foreign scent of a place, the newness of its sunsets, dawns, and twilights, the ambience of its nights, the perfume of its days, the secret knowledge that hangs in the very air waiting to be discovered or reveal itself.

Your dilemma is that you do not trust yourself, which is why you stare into darkness. You have been so close to the answer, walked the ground where it lay absorbed by the stones, yet did not recognise it.

I trust only myself-ourselves. We must travel and find ourselves a soulscaper, Gimel, a soulscaper suited to our needs. It has gone on too long, come too close. The sickness breathes upon our necks. I, for one, can wait no longer for others to act.

You are an ingenuous little terranaut, who is having a series of grubby adventures.

They giggled at my inquiries, shaking their heads, grabbing hold of my hands and whirling me 'round in their midst. My voice simply blew away from me.

It was as if the potential of the twins had been coaxed out, or unleashed; she wasn't sure which.

They had come here seeking the past, and maybe they had found it. But not in the way they'd imagined.

You don't mean to say you're going to abandon your quest for knowledge? I thought you wanted to unravel the enigmas of the world single-handed!

I think certain truths in our lives yearn to be uncovered, regardless of circumstances.

We have each other now. We have discovered each other.

Melandra found that the word Grigori acted like an cantrip-it opened doors and minds.