Quotes About Discovery

According to Johnson, access to new ideas and to the "liquid networks" that facilitate their mixing and matching often provides the catalyst for breakthrough new ideas.

It's just that we don't know what that passion is. If you ask someone, they'll tell you what they think they're passionate about, but they probably have it wrong." In other words, she believes that having passion for your work is vital, but she also believes that it's a fool's errand to try to figure out in advance what work will lead to this passion.

Other interviews in the archive promote this same idea that it's hard to predict in advance what you'll eventually grow to love.

Overall, Pardis's most important commitment was to patience. She didn't try to force a direction for her working life, but instead built up her career capital and kept her eyes open for the interesting directions she knew this process would uncover.

Getting involved with research early is like drinking an elixir of success. It's one of the most commonly overlooked and effective secrets for winning at college. Don't let this opportunity pass you by.

We set out on the trail of a murderous monster and ended up face to face with a frightened child.

marks Marcus had originally thought to be left by pitons at that site were therefore made by something else, probably something altogether unconnected to our case).

Still, it's an interesting technique--leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And *in* someone else.

IT is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies.

The journey, not the destination, was all that mattered. The sense of freedom, never mind that it was false, that always comes with motion.

My desire to return home, if it was still home, on my own two feet. The same way I had left it behind.

I had absolutely no idea what I was about to face. I only knew that, for the first time in my life, I would be all alone.

It live on in all who live and remember, teaching them how to discover such a love for themselves.

Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it.

No matter how much my heart cried out to be alone. For there was something in it that was clambering to get out. A thing I had not known was there until now. A thing with claws, teeth, and a temper, though I still didn't know what it was called.

There can be no better place to begin your exploration of the world than by stepping our your own back door.

I didn't yet perceive the way everything that happens is connected-didn't realize that opening a door that led to outside exploration would inevitably open a door to the unexplored places inside myself.

impossible to hide. Every word had led him closer to what was unnameable and appalling. What he had been trying for so many years to repress. Now escape was no longer an option. He felt the morning air fill his lungs as he walked as fast as he could. His heart was pounding in

Le Verrier —without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky—had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

météorites, Le galvanisme, La circulation du sang, La vaccine, L'ondulation de la lumière, Le paratonnerre, Le daguerréotype, La vapeur, L'hélice, Les paquebots, Les chemins de fer, L'éclairage au gaz, Le magnétisme, Et le reste, À ceux, vivants et à naître, qui font de même Dans le présent, Et feront de même dans l'avenir.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Las cosas nunca son como a primera vista las figuramos, y así ocurre que cuando empezamos a verlas de cerca, cuando empezamos a trabajar sobre ellas, nos presentan tan raros y hasta tan desconocidos aspectos; tal pasa con las caras que nos imaginamos, con los pueblos que vamos a conocer, que nos los hacemos de tal o de cual forma en la cabeza, para olvidarlos repentinamente ante la vista de lo verdadero.