Quotes About Discovery

If men could move out of infancy at half a mile an hour and get up to eighteen thousand miles an hour in one lifetime, well, who was to assume that the walls of the universe were safe from future men?

Some psychic bombardment of the will to live had begun, a new particle of love's mysterious atom had been discovered — the itch to jump.

A book is a present that you can open again and again

Start looking for joy and you'll find it.

the more I seek, the less I find.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

Oh dear, all those words again, thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a-- Be very quiet, advised the duke, for it goes without saying.

And remember, also...that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

And, as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

Being lost is not a matter of knowing where you are. It's a matter of knowing where you aren't.

But that can never be, said Milo, jumping to his feet. Don't be too sure, said the child patiently, for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see, he went on, it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where — but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

just follow that line forever, said the Mathemagician, and when you reach the end, turn left. There you'll find the land of Infinity, where the tallest, the shortest, the biggest, the smallest, and the most and least of everything are kept. I don't have that much time, said Milo anxiously. isn't there a quicker way? Well, you might try this flight of stairs, he suggested, opening another door and pointing up.It goes there, too.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't—and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

Yes, indeed, they repeated together; but if we'd told you then, you might not have gone--and as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

Milo had never thought much about words before, but these looked so good that he longed to have some. "Look, Tock," he cried, "aren't they wonderful?" "They're fine, if you have something to say

It is much better to look for what I may never find than to find what I do not really want.

You see," he went on, "it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where—but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago.

I soon discovered the truth of an old saying: "When God wants to punish you, he grants your wishes.

Being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't—and I don't care at all about where I'm not. - Alec

What a strange thing to have happen," he thought (just as you must be thinking right now). "This game is much more serious than I thought, for here I am riding on a road I've never seen, going to a place I've never heard of, and all because of a tollbooth which came from nowhere. I'm certainly glad that it's a nice day for a trip," he concluded hopefully, for, at the moment, this was the one thing he definitely knew.

For two days and nights and half another day again he walked – through lonely forests and down along the rushing mountain streams that seemed to know their destination far better than he knew his.