Quotes About Discovery

The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before.

I did not know it then, but my life was about to take a sharp turn. Strange and stranger (all carefully scientific of course) was about to become as common as air.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Keep not standing fix'd and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam; Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, And stout heart are still at home. In each land the sun does visit We are gay, whate'er betide: To give room for wandering is it That the world was made so wide.

Much that is terrible we do not know. Much that is beautiful we shall still discover. Let's sail till we come to the edge.

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

I am a flea market junkie! Every city I go to, I'll be sure to look up when and where the biggest and best markets are nearby.

I love having the mountains nearby so I can get on the motorbike or bike and get off to go for a walk.

Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.

For the millennium, we flew to Kuala Lumpur and then on to Pangkor Laut, a nearby island.

I think I'd be depressed if everything were nearly all known, but I don't feel any danger of that happening.

My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994.

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

Finding a good kid actor is like finding a needle in a massive haystack.

I grew up exploring my neighborhood and beyond, and would love to give my daughter that kind of freedom.