Quotes About Discovery

All libraries are a gateway into other worlds, including the past—and the future.

The faint odour of rotting cheese suggested that sandwiches had been lost in the trackless wastes of paper and never found again.

What Vale didn't know, he had absolutely no idea about, but what he did know was usually fascinating.

Green Lantern: "What are your powers anyway? You can't fly." Batman: "No." Green Lantern: "Super-strength?" Batman: "No." Green Lantern: "Hold on a second... You're not just some guy in a bat costume, are you? Are you freaking kidding me?!

Xander, have you ever googled "Mayflower" and "Billingtons"? Because I did. And it turns out one of your ancestors almost blew up the ship. And another one got hanged for murder after they landed in America. Ed. Note: 100% TRUE (you can google this)

Ed. Note: not literally. Just on Planet Amigo.

That is what a motorcycle road trip is supposed to be about, long miles and short stops in obscure places with interesting people and stories to be heard.

Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.

Unknowe, unkist, and lost, that is unsought.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Nothing is more inimical to the progress of science than the belief that we know what we do not yet know.

En la naturaleza no hay palabras, solamente iniciales. Al releer las nuevas "palabras", descubrimos que no son sino iniciales de otras

Man findet Spuren aller Wissenschaften in den Sprachen, und umgekehrt vieles in den Sprachen das in den Wissenschaften nützen kann.

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.

La escritura es excelente para despertar el sistema que dormita en cada hombre; cualquiera que haya escrito habrá notado que al escribir siempre se despierta algo que hasta entonces conocíamos de un modo impreciso y que sin embargo yacía en nosotros.

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

Random search can be more efficient than nonrandom search—something that Good and Turing had discovered at Bletchley Park. A random network, whether of neurons, computers, words, or ideas, contains solutions, waiting to be discovered, to problems that need not be explicitly defined.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.