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Quotes About Discovery

The new theory, of course, always subsumes more effects than the old. But the remarkable thing is that when it is discovered, it also wholly changes our conception of how the world works.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Knowledge … is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski
~ W. B. Yeats
Jacob Bronowski
~ Charles Darwin
El auténtico descubridor. No obstante, no es el hombre que, tiene la suerte de tropezarse con alguna cosa, sino el hombre que encuentra lo que iba buscando.
~ Jacob Burckhardt
El auténtico descubridor. No obstante, no es el hombre que, el primero, tiene la suerte de tropezarse con alguna cosa, sino el hombre que encuentra lo que iba buscando.
~ Jacob Burckhardt
Love child! What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.
~ Jacqueline Carey
I thought about Imriel de la Courcel. What would it be like, at ten years old, to learn that everything you had believed about your life was a lie? To learn that you were a traitor's get, that your very existence was part and parcel of an unthinkable scheme, and people you'd never met would gladly see you dead?
~ Jacqueline Carey
There are worse things in the world than heartbreak. Finding that out is a rite of passage.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
Where is everything?' Kendall and I chorused.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
No they don't. Not if you go to antique fairs and do someone a favour and find a little emerald for a special small girl,' said Dad.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Maurice's maxim: "To solve a problem, take it for a walk.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Seek the opportunity to swim beyond your own little pond.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear
~ Russell Thorndike
you have to move—go to another room, step out on a walk, or drive to a place fresh to you. Move yourself, and you move your mind. Look at the evidence from different angles.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Seek the opportunity to swim beyond your own little pond. She knew every reed, mud-bank, and fish in her pond. Perhaps it was time to look for that flat after all, sooner rather than later.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Go forward with a light step, my child. Your heart will open with every mile traveled. Fill it wisely.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions. Maurice's voice once again echoed in her mind. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Maybe, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this, in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
~ Jacques Cousteau
Je voudrais apprendre à vivre enfin.
~ Jacques Derrida