Quotes About Discovery

His other discovery, divine and scientific, was that ants hate the scent of humans. If you trace a circle around an ant with your finger, it will run up against that invisible border as if you had built a wall.

But, it's not about the ending. It's about the ride. Yes, they're going to end up together. That's the whole point. But I read the book because I want to take part in the ride. I want to tag along, sit in the back seat and watch, see how they get there.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

This is good eating,' whispered Taki to my surprise, for the fish, if anything, looked highly poisonous.

rolled their eyes, panted and gasped, and tried by every means possible to show us that they were at death's door from starvation. Unusually, Roger did not join in. Instead he was sitting out in the sunshine in front of a patch of brambles watching something with great intentness. I went over to see what was intriguing him to such an extent that he was ignoring my sandwich crusts. At

Olvidándome de mi inminente peligro de ser educado, salí con Roger a cazar luciérnagas por entre las abundantes zarzas

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

In contrast to the traditional idea of creative discovery as great leaps into the unknown by the 'man of genius' - the exploration of the adjacent possible by diverse perspectives can explain autocatalytic innovation within the context of cultural learning and conformity. The growth of diversity is self-accelerating because the size of the possible exponentially increases with the dimensions of the attributes being tinkered with.

But they are trials and tests for our own growth, not for God to find out how good we are. God knows that we are good; it is for us to discover that goodness. As we have seen, the tests of attachment, by bringing us to our knees in humility, may show us the way of goodness and allow us to choose that goodness with our whole being. We

Inside us all, in the depths of our winters, things are going on, things we will have no clue of until spring comes, and perhaps not even then.

Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea. And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

There are many technical workers who enjoy wandering so much that, like Alice in Wonderland, they don't much care where they go, so long as they get somewhere.

Years later he would add that Italians have "no other aim than to live" because they "discovered a long time ago that there is only one life and that certainty has made them allergic to cruelty.

They've named the well after you." "How did they know my name?" "They don't. They invented one.

I should show you to Robin," Terence murmured. Then he closed his eyes.

Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.

He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.

So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.