Quotes About Discovery

Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.

There was no plot... and I discovered it by mistake.

The good thing about the studium is the that you learn from your teachers, true, but even more from your fellows, especially those older than you, when they tell you what they have read, and you discover that the world must be full of wondrous things and to know them all - since a lifetime will not be a enough for you to travel through the whole world - you can only read all the books.

we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles .

Her yerde erinç arad?m, ama hiçbir yerde bulamad?m, bir kitapla çekildiÄŸim köÅŸeden baÅŸka.

O mundo está cheio de livros fantásticos que ninguém lê

The dove, as it flies in the sun, seems simply to sparkle like silver, but only one who has been able to wait at length to discover its hidden face will see its true gold or, rather, the color of a shining orange.

Le nouveau royaume de Jérusalem est un peu la Californie de l'époque, on peut y faire fortune.

It is the logic of research and discovery that is tortuous, because it is the logic of science. Whereas the logic of knowledge needs no discovery, because it knows already.

Jacopo seemed to have forgotten his elegiac mood and competed with Diotallevi in imagining absurd machines—only to discover, each time, that the machines had already been invented.

RzeczywiÅ›cie, czÄ™sto siÄ™ zdarza, ?e idzie siÄ™ do biblioteki, bo chce siÄ™ ksi??kÄ™ o znanym tytule, ale gÅ'ównÄ… funkcjÄ… biblioteki, a przynajmniej funkcjÄ… biblioteki w moim domu i w domach wszystkich znajomych, jakich mo?emy odwiedza?, jest odkrywanie ksi??ek, których istnienia siÄ™ nie podejrzewaÅ'o, a które, jak siÄ™ okazuje, sÄ… dla nas niezwykle wa?ne.

For him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

The polemical title is "The Force of Falsity," and in the lecture I wanted to show how a number of ideas that today we consider false actually changed the world (sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse) and how, in the best instances, false beliefs and discoveries totally without credibility could then lead to the discovery of something true (or at least something we consider true today). In the field of the sciences, this mechanism is known as serendipity.

Tôi Ä'ã Ä'i cùng kh?p, ki?m sá»± an bình, r?t cuá»™c ch? tìm th?y nó khi ng?i ? má»™t góc phòng vá»›i má»™t quy?n sách mà thôi…

because one who knows not how to seek will never find…

De ideale functie van een bibliotheek is om een beetje te lijken op de kraam van een bouquiniste, de ideale plek voor trouvailles.

Ognuno nasce con un dono, tutto sta nello scoprirlo e nell'avere fortuna di vederlo apprezzato

Haven't you grasped the significance of this discovery? In the Telluric Navel you place the most powerful valve, which enables you to foresee rain and drought, to release hurricanes, tidal waves, earthquakes, to split continents, sink islands (no doubt Atlantis disappeared in some such reckless experiment), raise mountain chains …You realize the atomic bomb is nothing in comparison? Besides

That was when I saw the Pendulum.

Terra incognita (???????? ???)

El secreto de mi éxito es que de joven descubrí que no era Dios».

Porque la ciencia no consiste sólo en saber lo que debe o puede hacerse, sino también en saber lo que podría hacerse aunque quizá no debiera hacerse.

4 El que trata de penetrar en la Rosaleda de los Filósofos sin la clave es como el hombre que pretenda caminar sin los pies. Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens, Oppenheim