Quotes About Discovery

They race from us! Only to find us sooner.

Revolutions that upend established scientific truth are exceedingly rare. But when they happen, they can have profound effects on science and technology.

The first planet that Cooper and his crew visit is Miller's. The most impressive things about this planet are the extreme slowing of time there, gigantic water waves, and huge tidal gravity. All three are related, and arise from the planet's closeness to Gargantua.

A journey once begun, has no end

There is no truer meditation than music and no journey of discovery greater than that of looking within. A

What we both overlooked was the fact that insight is not only gained by personal reflection, often it is acquired by unexpected experiences that bring new perspectives to our analysis.

humanity has spent too much time in the children's section of the universal library,

A stranger is a friend you haven't met yet

You're never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.

Only when her magic began to return did she realize just how much she'd given away.

For the first time in my life, I was alone. And for the first time in my life, I knew what the hell I was doing.

Jij bent uitgekozen omdat jij de enige was die Kiki niet zelf hoefde te zoeken. Jij hebt háár gevonden. Dat maakt jou heel bijzonder. - Varoesjka

When they'd first met in their twenties, he'd seemed like such a fascinating mystery. Unfortunately, it hadn't taken long to solve it.

No one would ever find her here. Even from the high saddle there was no sign of the way she'd come, no path, no road, only the bent backs of the hills repeating themselves, over and over, on one side of the road all the way to the western mountains, on the other to the sea.

Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure.

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

Jeg hadde ikke fått se noe grønt, men du verden for en begivenhetsrik dag.

I have gone to the forest

The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest - who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being, the first that came here. There was no path before he came.

There might be a fresh, new kind of truth in a cabbage

I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don't know to where, but an entrance to somewhere, some other world.

The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

Last night I got up to pin a star under my top bunk. It stands for Matthew, who's a planet all to himself. In order to get to know that planet you have to do away with rules and prejudices and language, and throw yourself at it without being frightened of traveling through space.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.