Quotes About Discovery

Quit pretending you know things you don't and start running experiments.

No matter how routine the commute seems, no two trips are ever the same.

Each trip is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close of the Old Testament canon.

Imagination without logic is worthless. It conceives uncritically; pursued for its own sake, it but deforms the mind. Logic by itself is only futile; without imagination it can only reprove the proven and so discover nothing.

I say "courage," but it may be something else. Those who have not taken this step, who have not come to terms with themselves, are not necessarily frightened, they are perhaps helpless, disoriented, lost as one is in the middle of a forest that's too dark or dense or vast.

His was the first male sex I held in my hand, other than my own. My first kiss was the one he gave me. My first embrace, skin against skin, was with him.

here are the lost years won back with words,

Of course I "prefer boys." But I'm not capable of saying this sentence out loud yet. I discovered my orientation very young, at eleven years old. Even then I knew.

Cette chambre est un navire. Un marie à bord duquel nous naviguons, sur des mers calmes ou déchainées, à la recherche de rivages paisibles ou accidentés. Il y a des soleils impressionnants et puis des cours de sirocco. Il y a des étendues d'eau à perte de vue et puis, brusquement, la côté. Il y a ce roulis incessant, qui nous berce ou nous secoue, qui nous accompagne toujours. Nous sommes des marins égarés, à bord d'un bateau ivre.

Cette chambre est un navire. Un navire à bord duquel nous naviguons, sur des mers calmes ou déchainées, à la recherche de rivages paisibles ou accidentés. Il y a des soleils impressionnants et puis des cours de sirocco. Il y a des étendues d'eau à perte de vue et puis, brusquement, la côté. Il y a ce roulis incessant, qui nous berce ou nous secoue, qui nous accompagne toujours. Nous sommes des marins égarés, à bord d'un bateau ivre.

Arthur, we are living the greatest adventure that ever was.

Nothing is like anything he knows. It's like being born a second time.

C'est un peu comme les êtres au fond, ceux justement que l'on croise durant des années, mais qu'on ne connaît jamais, et qui se révèlent un jour, sous nos yeux, comme jamais on ne les aurait crus capables d'être.

el miedo surge cuando descubrimos lo que hasta el día anterior creíamos ignorar.

Believe marvels exist around you, inside others, within yourself. Go search for them. Gallop through life and without dismounting your horse manage (like a Cossack!) to pick up bits of otherworldliness lying on the path. Feed your imagination that way. That way, shape your destiny.

Believe in the miracles that exist around you, inside others, in you. Go look for them. Feed your imagination. In this way, build your destiny.

When I was six years old, I learned to read from a map of Disneyland.... When learning to read, kids' first words are typically ones like cat and bat. Mine were Jungle Cruise, Fantasyland, and Autopia.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.

What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world.

using billion dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the woods,

The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until you write it. "Write what you want to know" is more like it.