Quotes About Discovery

I like the fact there can be so many secret places in a city filled with people. It gives me hope.

The secret world she had entered danced to a different song.

I am the Chasm. I have depths to explore and fill. - Dalien Brock

By sniffing and licking anything that oozed from trees, colonial botanists found that Australia abounded in interesting exudates.

Repetition opens doors, you know?

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

My final slide quoted the words of biologist Louis Agassiz: 'Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

Everywhere the culture reproduces itself, reflects itself, as in a hall of mirrors - the landscape, the language, the currency, all bouncing off each other, recreating each other - and in the midst of those mirrors, both reflected and projecting, stands the child, discovering himself in these castle walls, these terraced hills, the liquid words he speaks, and now in this coloured paper, too.

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

It was a 'revelation' to Childers to discover that de Valera was not thinking of appealing to moderate opinion.

Newton must have been right when he'd said that light consisted of particles, for today he could feel them hitting him.

I think I figured out a thing." "Is it a good thing, or a bad thing?" "Definitely one of the two,

Hi there," he said. "I hear you need to see a man about a frog.

If you want to go somewhere new, you have to throw out the tired, old map and stop traveling the same road to the same dead end.

It's okay to make mistakes; just make new ones!

I think I just found a new definition of "nightwinging" it

You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything's old hat. They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

when you're a little kid. Everything is a sparkling wonder.

I figured we'd just do what we always do: stick our noses in where they don't belong and see what happens.

Thrill to the names—El Dorado, Searchlight, Medicine Bow, Mesa Verde, Tombstone, Durango, Hole in the Wall, Lost Trail Pass, Nez Perce National Forest. Active names, implying that something consequential is going on: the Wind River Range, the Magic Valley, the River of No Return, the Painted Desert, Wolf Point, Paradise, Death Valley, the Crazy Mountains.

When the grandchildren of these leading citizens later discovered hoods in the attic, or membership lists that included their kin, they could not fathom how such a thing came to pass. They knew the Ku Klux Klan was born in the murk of blood-spilling hate, built around a racial order that would find its most ghastly expression in the laws of Nazi Germany.

I'll take the advice of Labre, the patron saint of wandering souls, who grew up not far from here: 'There is no way. The way is made by walking.

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?