Quotes About Discovery

The history of science and technology has traditionally privileged innovation over the transmission, transformation, and transfer of knowledge. But it was often the less spectacular knowledge that led to the most celebrated discoveries and inventions.

I had read the book 1421—The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies and become intrigued by his perspective on the era. Menzies, of course

Sometimes you can't see what the problem is until you go close, until you look deep inside. It's when you look beyond the edge of what you think you know that you can finally arrive at the truth.

Atwater. "So somebody else went through their rooms?

what a school was: a building designed to aid in gaining new knowledge, communicating it to others, and applying it in invention. This was a revelation. His creators needed

So he left, and found no passion, and returned to nothing at all.

When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.

Where's the hooch—for Dickhead?" "Fourth-floor gift room." She stared at him for ten silent seconds. "We have a gift room?" On a half laugh, he shook his head. "One day, darling Eve, you really should go through the entire house. East wing, fourth-floor tower." "Okay." Since she wasn't completely sure where that was, she walked to the elevator.

He'd walked into her life, and everything had changed. He'd found her; she'd found him—and all those dark places inside both of them had gotten a little smaller, a little brighter.

If children don't push the edges now and again, what's the point of being a child?

Two lost souls. He'd once called them that. She wondered if they'd stopped being lost when they'd found each other.

When you find nothing," Morris said, "it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something." "Is that a Zen thing?" Eve questioned. "If not, it should be.

Loving you changed everything for me. Being loved by you opened everything for me. Every day is more.

How do people know that stuff? Why do people know that stuff?" "Science," Peabody said. "You can't live without it.

Aren't you a little old for toys?" "It's not a toy, it's an adventure

I never get to have the fun. I bet there's hair and fiber in there, and I'll be right on the scene.

He'd been tempted to wander into her bedroom while he'd had the apartment to himself and see what he might have discovered about her there, but he'd resisted. It was not so much respect for her privacy as it was the challenge she presented that provoked him to discover her from the woman alone rather than her surroundings.

building again," Eve continued. "Knows how to angle herself to keep her face off camera. We're going to find somebody who saw

Lots of medical, scientific, technological advances come through little bits of craziness, a lot of ego." "Or

I'd blow your mind with it. I'm talking hashtag-phone-gasm, right? I mean, I don't even know what all it can do yet and I'm on it all the time. You know?

box, lifted the wrapped lid. And nearly blubbered again when she saw the little music box. When

I would've found you," she murmured, "even on the darkest road.

Alone, Roarke took the gray fabric button from his pocket, the one he'd found on the floor of his limo. The one that had fallen from the jacket of that drab gray suit she'd worn the first time he'd seen her.

I know. I've got to cover all the bases. I'm going to track down the people Mavis recognized at the victim's house, get statements. I've got to find a table dancer with a big dick and a tattoo." "The fun never ends." She nearly smiled. "I need to find people who