Quotes About Discovery

In one single underground deposit alone scientists have found a huge slab of frozen water—ice that's six times the area of New England and more than 100 feet deep.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every time you turn a bigger telescope to the night sky, we end up smaller than we had previously imagined…It is an ego-dismantling device

Had Herschel succeeded, the planet list would read: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and George.

Las personas que creen que lo saben todo nunca han buscado ni se han encontrado con los lindes entre lo conocido y lo desconocido en el cosmos. Y

A perspectiva cósmica nos lembra que no espaço, onde não há ar, uma bandeira não tremula - um indício de que talvez agitar bandeiras e explorar o espaço não conbinam.

Meteor Crater A 150-foot-wide metallic meteor struck the Mogollon Rim in modern-day Arizona 50,000 years ago, leaving a mile-wide hole that's 60 stories deep.

Perspektywa kosmiczna przypomina nam, ?e w przestrzeni pozaziemskiej, gdzie nie ma powietrza, flaga nie zaÅ'opocze Ã¢â'¬â€œ co wydaje siÄ™ wskazówkÄ…, ?e by? mo?e wymachiwanie flagami i eksploracja kosmosu nie idÄ… w parze.

Adventures suck when you're having them.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there? STRAUSS: No, I don't. RICHIE: Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the top was all the experiences that you had to get there.

We were all searching outside ourselves for our missing pieces, and we were all looking in the wrong direction. Instead of finding ourselves, we'd lost our sense of self. Mystery didn't have the answers. A blonde 10 in a twoset at the Standard didn't have the answers. The answers were to be found within.

What are borders, after all, but checkpoints letting you know that you've reached a new stage in your adventure? Well

The great thing about real life is that it will always surprise you.

So while the kids played in the room next door, I had sex for the first time and discovered that it was like masturbation, but a lot more work.

What a strange thing, she thought, to find out one day that you had built your whole life on a mistake, and the next to discover that this fact would allow you to have your dearest wish.

He understood, too, that they had not necessarily been chosen to succeed, or even to live. But they'd been chosen to find the Holy Grail that was within themselves. And that's what this was always about; the Grail was a phantom and the journey was inward, into their hearts and souls.

Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. All roads lead to Rome.

And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.  

We are finding it- first in our heads, then in our hearts. He reminded Purcell. This is a spiritual journey before it becomes a physical journey.

this was the Middle East. The land of the mirage, the shimmering pond in the sand that drew you farther into the deadly desert, and when you arrived at the lifesaving water, it disappeared, and you discovered the bones of those who'd been there before you. You discovered death.

I'd written my name on the blackboard, and under my name I wrote the name of the course for the would-be Sherlock Holmeses who needed more than the instructor's name and room number to be certain they were in the right place.

Oddly enough, I didn't recall feeling that way the week before. I wasn't certain how this revelation came about, but revelations are like that; they just smack you across the face one day, and you know you've arrived at the truth without even knowing you were looking for it. What you do about it is another matter. I

There was a big banner hung at the entrance to the stacks which read: "Find Buried Treasure—Read Books." Excellent advice.