Quotes About Discovery

it is the human discovery of that molecule that has elevated it to the status of being studied. It was there all along, but now we have imbued it with mystical qualities. Our discovery of it changes nothing about what it does. We often mistake an effect (e.g., of an action, a treatment, a molecule) for our understanding of the effect. What a thing does, and what we think (or know) that it does, are not the same thing.

The Spanish were the first to arrive on this island

She didn't turn but ran down the length of the beach, searching the sand and the water, looking for any hint as to where the body had been moved. "What, Alex?" Jay shouted. "You saw a corpse, but it rolled down the beach to catch the sun better?" She stopped then, whirling around. "It's moved," she said, walking back to where Jay stood. "Your corpse got up and walked?

she was next to the skeleton of what

The truth was always out there, you just had to find it.

You have the ability to find all the answers--if you let yourself do so.

The more I have, The more I realize that all that matters is the small discoveries, the little interactions, the improvised, messy, glued-together moments that lie at the centre of our happiness. Everything else is just a distraction.

Sometimes you don't know you'll miss a place until you're gone.

Like the rest of the world, they seemed to have figured out something I didn't know - where they'd come from, where they were going - and moved on.

A sky has to be lost for a sea to be truly found.

Love walks wildernesses of discovery and adventure but it always returns home to the divine with the ones it loves most.

Your being is as mysterious now as it was from the moment you were born.

Would I want to know the ending to my own story? No. I want the adventure that comes with finding out.

we drive along this road called life, occasionally a gal finds herself a little lost.

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. —Charlie Brown

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. —Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. —Neil Armstrong

They seek the edges, because it is the edges that ultimately lead us. A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

The one thing that kept me moving forward has been the profound sense of joy I felt as I was receiving the material.

You learn over lifetimes. You keep try. You will find middle way to be. This life. Next. You find your way.

Rosie knew this moment from raising four other children to this point already, the one where suddenly your kids know more than you do about something they've discovered all on their own, something real and important not just cartoons or video games. Amazing was exactly what it was." Chap. "Hedge Enemies

Our road trip makes me see that needing help doesn't mean there aren't other places to get it besides home, other people who can provide it besides family, that having limits doesn't mean I cannot—must not, maybe—bewitch and bewilder, range far and wander wide and wild. For home is like black holes—no matter how small, no matter how humble, they capture everything in range and trap it inside. The only way to escape their draw is to be far enough away.

lulled into a complacency born of proud discoveries and medical triumphs, unprepared for the coming plague.

They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time.