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Quotes About Discovery

Why is it that science comes and goes and technologies remain stable?
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This world is full of new things to try. Not all of them will bring you joy, but those that don't will at least bring you education- as you'll learn to never do them again.
~ Nat Gertler
She discovered the wings she never knew she had.
~ Natalie Babbit
Readers are lucky -– they will never be bored or lonely.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Sitting relaxed with his back against the trunk was a boy, almost a man. And he seemed so glorious to Winnie that she lost her heart at once.
~ Natalie Babbitt
The people would have noticed the giant ash tree at the center of the wood, and then, in time, they'd have noticed the little spring bubbling up among its roots in spite of the pebbles piled there to conceal it. And that would have been a disaster so immense that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembled on its axis like a beetle on a pin.
~ Natalie Babbitt
And then his throat closed. For it was there. He had wanted it to be there, but now that he saw it, he was overcome with sadness.
~ Natalie Babbitt
The first house only is important; the first house, the road, and the wood.
~ Natalie Babbitt
You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. Theories of Time and Space
~ Natasha Trethewey
take responsibility for finding it. It is only by grace of the second type
~ Nathaniel Branden
This earth is the distant star we must find a way to reach.
~ Nathaniel Branden
This chaos serves, however, to emphasize the fact that the nature of man's needs has to be discovered. Needs are not self-evident. Alleged needs must be proven by relating them to the requirements of man's survival.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Few secrets can escape an investigator who has opportunity and license to undertake such a quest and skill to follow it up.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
there are few things whether in the outward world, or, to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought—few things hidden from the man who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ought a woman to disclose her frailties earlier than the wedding day? Few husbands, I assure you, make the discovery in such good season, and still fewer complain that these trifles are concealed too long. Well, what a strange man you are! Poh! you are joking.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Burlacul se simte-ntotdeauna tras pe sfoara cand stie, sau banuieste, ca vreuna din femeile pe care le cunoaste s-a deconspirat singura.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Without the discovery of Arnold's treason in the fall of 1780, the American people might never have been forced to realize that the real threat to their liberties came not from without but from within.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
I breakfasted at four [a.m.], was in the saddle at five, and between that hour and 6 p.m. I rode fifty miles over a rough country, unknown to everybody, and only myself for a guide
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Pritisnila je na gumb dvigala. Šla bo in kupila letalsko vozovnico. Svoboda, ki jo iš?e, je njena, ne Satakejeva, ne Jajoina, ne Jošijina, in prepri?ana je bila, da mora biti tam nekje zunaj. ?e so se za njo zaprla še ena vrata, nima druge izbire, kot da najde nova in jih odpre. Dvigalo, ki ji je prišlo naproti, je je?alo kot veter. END.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Strange that she'd never known she had such cruelty inside.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Era sufficiente rimuovere una piccola pietra scaldata dal sole per scoprire la terra umida e fresca. E lei, in quel momento, voleva assaporare a fondo l'oscurità del lato nascosto al sole.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Cormac was completely aware that he was being manipulated, but how he could not see. He reckoned that when he did find out, the surprise would be a nasty one. That was how it usually went.
~ Neal Asher
Who are you?' asked Gurun. 'I am the Polity black-ops stealth attack ship Obsidian Blade.' 'Fuck,' said Gurun.
~ Neal Asher
Funny how you don't realize what's missing until you've found it.
~ Neal Shusterman