Quotes About Discovery

He felt like someone going to a whorehouse for the first time.

I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others things besides, and that means he is not small. The fact that man has discovered all this precisely proves his greatness.

If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of 500 Bibles.In the meantime human beings have discovered this for themselves. That's right. They have uncovered our profoundest concept -- namely, that life is ultimately reading. They themselves are the Book of Books.

The only new thing is history we don't know.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Harry Shapiro

when we awoke someone had stolen the sea.

He walked to it, shoved his hand inside and came up with a thirty-five caliber Smith and Wesson. He held it in his hand, hefting it. Then he ejected the cartridge case, checked it and socked it back into the gun.

Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself.

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.

Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

many paths in the forest have chosen me. I go on any.

The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

Ich suchte und konnte Dich nicht finden; ich rief vom Minarett laut nach Dir; ich läutete beim Steigen und Sinken der Sonne die Tempelglocke; ich tauchte vergeblich in des Ganges heiligen Strom; ich kam enttäuscht von der Kaaba zurück; ich sah mich auf Erden nach Dir um; ich suchte nach Dir im Himmel, mein Geliebter, doch endlich habe ich Dich gefunden – als verborgene Perle in der Muschel meines Herzens.

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.

Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans' floors?"... "No." "Well, if you can't answer those simple scientific queries, then what makes you think that mankind is smart enough to discover vampirekind's existence?

Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans' floors?"... "No." "Welt, if you can't answer those simple scientific queries, then what makes you think that mankind is smart enough to discover vampirekind's existence?

Don't be silly. Everyone's an artist. You probably just haven't found your medium yet.

i know they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder. but sometimes, absence can also reveal the waning of once fond feelings. time passes and it's a surprise to realize that you haven't missed him, or her, or the place or the job that once felt like a match.

In Nietzsche's framework, joy is the feeling of your power increasing. [...] Power comes in many forms, one of which is mastery. As we become expert—in creation or discovery, in helping or healing, in communicating or leading—we gain power. That power is revealed in flow, and in joy.