Quotes About Discovery

Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

Occasionally, too, and quite unbidden, it would warble little impromptu inward melodies of my own composition, which often seemed to me extremely pretty, old-fashioned, and quaint; but one is not a fair judge of one's own productions, especially during the heat of inspiration; and I had not the means of recording them, as I had never learned the musical notes. What the world has lost! Now whose this small voice was I did not find out till many years later, for it was not mine!

The laws of adult development are nowhere near as well known as the laws of the solar system or even the laws of child development, which were only discovered in the last century.

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

Was this his face, and these the finding eyes That plucked a new world from the rolling seas?

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

George Gamow

No importa cuánto te agrade una teoría: si los resultados experimentales la refutan, habrá que arrojarla a la basura.

I learned that sometimes what you go looking for isn't as important as what you leave behind." My

I got my boots out of the closet, put them on, and buckled a belt with a knife on it around my waist under my robe. Baha-char was the place where you went to find things. Sometimes things found you instead and tried to take your money.

He went to the lake again. He found some sort of magic freshwater clams in it. He's very excited about it." Conlan shrugged.

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let all of it go. No need to hide. Magic flowed through me, intoxicating, heady, seductive. It mixed with my bloodlust and I realized that's how my father must have felt when he led his armies into battle. I was raised by Roland's Warlord. I'd dropped my shackles and they would bow to me.

Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you could swim? But

Unfortunately, no matter how well you hide, sooner or later your big secret will bite you in the behind, and you might find yourself standing on a telephone pole, not sure why or how you got there, while the neighborhood pretends not to hear your piercing screeches.

For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely.

And that's why we don't poke random shit we find in the woods with a stick," Keelan said.