Quotes About Discovery

There's much to be said for taking people unawares. You never know what you might learn.

Adventure stank. She boasted sixty oars, a single sail, and a long lean hull that promised speed. Small, but she might serve, Quentyn thought when he saw her, but that was before he went aboard and got a good whiff of her.

Arya never seemed to find the places she set out to reach.

The farther in they went, the closer the cliffs pressed to either side. They followed the moonlit ribbon of stream back toward its source. Icicles bearded its stony banks, but Jon could still hear the sound of rushing water beneath the thin hard crust.

Sir Humphry Davy, an accomplished English chemist,

Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.

He gave the world another world.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

I recall the eerie pleasure of getting a copy of the U-2 Users' Manual .

The more we know of the history of the universe, the more we know about ourselves.

The truth and treasure of the universe is its own existence, and our quest for that truth and treasure will be eternal, like the universe itself.

I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own.

I really enjoy travel, I enjoy the U.K., I enjoy Scotland, Glasgow.

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

Es el hombre vivo lo que hay que buscar bajo el polvo de los archivos y en el silencio de los museos.

It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is wrong that you don't know how to live and you will never know

It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know." -from "A Man Asleep

Si parte da un dettaglio qualsiasi, talvolta di poco conto, e senza volerlo si giunge a scoprire grandi princìpi.

On doit procéder par tâtonnements, essayer des hypothèses vraisemblables et partielles se contenter d'approximations provisoires, de manière à laisser toujours la porte ouverte à des corrections progressives.

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.