Quotes About Discovery

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising.

I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

The most surprising thing I discovered was how rich of a life I've led. It's easy to forget all the things we experience throughout our human journey.

The Great British Dig' is a fantastic format which combines finding out about the history of where you live and the surprising things that lie under your own back garden. Its kind of a community archaeology project.

Well, we can't send Dr. Tresselt back by himself," said Dr. Tresselt, with a grin. "I might find something interesting along the way, and

Well, we can't send Dr. Tresselt back by himself," said Dr. Tresselt, with a grin. "I might find something interesting along the way, and get side-tracked, and forget where I was supposed to be going.

Anemone Cave, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

We opened our eyes and turned in bed to take a good look at each other. We both knew it then. We'd reached the end of something, and the thing was to find out where new to start.

He was going somewhere, he knew that. And if it was the wrong direction, sooner or later he'd find it out.

Though he continued to take classes here and there in the sciences and in business, Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

He reached for the card without excitement, read it, turned it over and read the back with as much care as the front. There was nothing on the back to read.

I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

mat. A case of false teeth hung on the mustard-colored wall like a fuse box in a screen porch.

You learn something new every day, if you just stop to pay attention.

There are sunsets above other oceans, Ghuda. Mighty sights and great wonders to behold.

Raymond E. Feist

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?

Sometimes the greatest gifts can be found in the darkest, deepest closets of the mind.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don't know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...