Quotes About Discovery

I reached out for something else and found it: the red croquet mallet, just occurring there on the ground like some easy device, some plot element stashed there for the big finale.

Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a world utterly mapped, that nothing is rogue with everything cross-pollinated, as the shouts on the beach lured him across the street to the sand.

You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten. It is an honor to be in that sacred space in some children's brains.

I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you and that's why we broke up.- Min, Why We Broke Up

Lo que sucede con los deseos del corazón es que tu corazón ni siquiera sabe lo que desea hasta que lo tiene enfrente.

There is no cure for illusions. There is only the opportunity for discovery.

There is no cure for illusion. There is only the opportunity for discovery.

Now, these parts of the earth [Europe, Africa, Asia] have been more extensively explored and a fourth part has been discovered by Amerigo Vespucci (as will be described in what follows). Inasmuch as both Europe and Asia received their names from women, I see no reason why any one should justly object to calling this part Amerige [from Greek "ge" meaning "land of"], i.e., the land of Amerigo, or America, after Amerigo, its discoverer, a man of great ability.

Inspiring all Holmes's championship of free expression was his seeking spirit, his doubt that he or anyone had an avenue to the absolute. The great act of faith, he wrote to his friend William James (who hardly needed the advice), is when man decides that he is not God. On his ninetieth birthday he was still reminding young men that his discovery I was not God was his secret of success.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

secrets were more like mines waiting to be triggered than treasure waiting to be found. I glanced

How could losing everything be so bad if losing everything brought me this? It

I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

No one can ever know in advance if a project is going to result in something useful. Results are often negative. We learn what something is not—and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

I wanted to know the truth, and yet I was afraid of what I might learn.

And how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They're people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.

Strauss shook his head. The point I've been trying to make is that this money is intended for research. No one can ever know in advance if a project is going to result in something useful. Results are often negative. We learn what something is not—and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so mabye its something that helps you have good luk.

Results are often negative. We learn what something is not - and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

It's confusing, but I'm going to find out all about my life.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

I've got to work out the rule. If I can find that out, and if it adds even one jot of information to whatever else has been discovered about mental retardation and the possibility of helping others like myself, I will be satisfied. Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

The current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea.

I was wandering around like a lost soul, and then I saw that I was lost.