Quotes About Discovery

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

I hit this point - I guess you'd say an end of a chapter - where I felt like I kind of did everything. I wasn't interested in music. It was a really strange feeling, and needless to say, it freaked me out a little bit. I really started to go inward and say, 'Hey, what is this about?'

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange.

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

We have to do what I would call anomalies: we have to look for strange things that show up once in a while. They don't show up all the time. We have to be scanning the horizon, and doing that, once in a while something will show up that makes a lot of sense, and then you act on it.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

Strangely enough, I've become a Metallica fan.

I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.

From my point of view, 'Stranger in a Strange Land' isn't just a science fiction masterpiece; it also happens to be one of my favorite books ever.

As soon as they sent me an email saying that 'Stranger Things' is having an audition and they'd like you to come in, I just thought, 'Oh boy, this might be fated.' I hadn't really watched the show, but I binged it and fell in love with it.

Ma did a play called 'Entertaining Strangers' when I was about 14, which totally changed my life, I loved it so much.

Talk to strangers. They're never who you think they are at first.

I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.'

In Iraq, the Army discovered that if the official hierarchy was on a disastrous course, it was vital to bypass it in order to adapt. Petraeus

native dwellers … learn through an education of attention. The novice hunter … travels through the country with his mentors, and as he goes, specific features are pointed out to him. Other things he discovers for himself, in the course of further forays, by watching, listening and feeling

There is no end to learning, but there are many beginnings……

It is a monument erected in 1887 by the Austro-Hungarian Military Geographical Institute, which the locals claim marks their discovery of the center of Europe.

Bij het ontdekken van die verschillen zeiden ze 'ah,ja,' met een toon van vergeving - er konden nu eenmaal niet alleen maar overeenkomsten zijn.

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

How are things on the edge of space?

It's still a great time for adventurers.