Quotes About Discovery

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

Most people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf.

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

You go into the dark to get away from what you know, and if you go far enough, you realize, suddenly, that you'll never really make it back into the light.

We now have access, increasingly, to more and more cultures across the globe, and the result is that restlesness has gone global, and hopdfulness, and the sense of an answer being found somewhere else.

Going nowhere was the grand adventure that made sense of everywhere else.

I decided that I would no longer seek out holy places in [a] city of temples. I would just let life come to me in all its happy confusion and find the holiness in that.

But their discovery of the void brings with it new implications: not only that they must continue on in their actions and diligence, no longer considered as duties but as gratuitous, senseless routines, but also the exhilarating realization that all is nothing but a game.

If I then discovered a cancer in myself and died, I'd consider it a victory of that reality of things.

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

We can find beauty anywhere. Sometimes it is obvious, sometimes it needs some commitment on our part. Sometimes it jumps out at us suddenly, other times we come upon it slowly.

I swam to shore, therefore i am

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

Parce que moi, je vais toujours aux rendez-vous. De toute ma vie, je n'en ai pas raté un seul. J'aime découvrir la personne qui m'attend ou que j'attends. Sa légère inquiétude qui s'évapore à la seconde où je parais. Pour rien au monde je ne manquerais l'évaporation d'une inquiétude.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

I have discovered a truly marvellous demonstration [of this general theorem] which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n'ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything .)

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

I used to take 'Visions of Cody' by Jack Kerouac on tour all the time. I don't really love Kerouac, but that book, you could just open at any page and find something incredible for that day.

A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.