Quotes About Discovery

Bisognava entrare nei recessi di quello straordinario palazzo al buio, e solo lentamente scoprire, nella luce tramolante delle lampade al burro, le smorfie delle ogre e i sorrisi benevoli dei Buddha. Il neon pra impedisce ogni scoperta, tarpa le ali a chi voglia ancora abbandonarsi ai voli dello spirito.

De waarheid is een land zonder wegen

Vivo ora, qui, con la sensazione che l'universo è straordinario, che niente, mai ci succede per caso e che la vita è una continua scoperta. E io sono particolarmente fortunato perché, ora più che mai, ogni giorno è davvero un altro giro di giostra.

Where then did I get my longing to see the world, my fetish for printed paper, my love of books, and above all that burning desire to leave Florence, to travel, to go to the ends of earth? Where did I get this yearning for always being somewhere else? Certainly not from my parents, with their deep roots in the city where they were born and grew up, which they had left only once, for their honeymoon in Prato -- ten miles away.

Why did I practically flee from home when I was fifteen, to go and wash dishes all over Europe? Why, when I arrived in Asia, did I feel so much at home that I stayed there. The wish to get as far away as possible from the poverty-stricken world of my childhood? Perhaps.

Our search should not be a flight from life.

There in that embrace, she feels something shuffling around, moving warily fumbling through the dusty rooms of her heart, and, one by one, turning on the lights

Go and see for yourself. Trust your intuition. It will lead you to purpose and direction. Trust your path. Trust your process. Discover that everyone is wrong—including you!

Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one is by going down the wrong one first.

Once you have discovered the physical facts of a situation, all that remains - no matter how improbable - is more interesting.

In 1960, with the advent of potassium-argon dating, anthropologists discovered that the age of the Zinjanthropus site at Olduvai Gorge was more than 1.75 million years older than they thought. It threw off the entire history of the Pleistocene age.

Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail ' but cool area.

It was like someone had turned a knob a hair to the right ... and the radio station clicked in so loud and clear it almost knocked her over .

Doubt can lead you where certainty never will.

Playing Doctor Who came as a great surprise to me. I had no idea that I would enjoy it so much. All that was required of me was to be able to speak complete gobbledygook with conviction.

The true purpose of education is not to fill a container, but to light a fire that inspires a lifelong passion for learning and personal growth.

Somehow in all of this we are still capable of finding some illumination, some truth, some place where we step out of ourselves, where we are ecstatic, where we have an ecstatic, visionary realization.

The most memorable interviews for me are always the ones where I feel like I'm learning something new.

Boredom is only for people who do not know themselves or the wonders of life.

The science of human nature… finds itself today in the position that chemistry occupied in the days of alchemy." Alfred Adler

He looked for ways in which new ideas could come into being via spontaneous insight rather than conflict.

It is characteristic of insight solutions and new ideas that they should be obvious after they have been found.

She discovered Carl Jung's book Psychological Types and it became the theoretical foundation for a lifetime's work, later taken up by her daughter (who became Isabel Briggs Myers).

Ilya Prigogine, chemist; John