Quotes About Discovery

I didn't want to continue in my present state if there was even the remotest possibility of finding further help, no matter where in the world I would have to go to find it.

After a few minutes, though, I started to take in what all the attendees were looking at: hundreds and hundreds of historical documents, self-published books, CD-ROMs with lists of lists of names, databases chock-full of people who had once lived and whom no living person now remembered. Everyone in this hall was looking for someone who was gone forever.

At the same time that Lahn's results were published, another team of scientists based at the University of California, San Diego, announced the discovery of a positively selected gene called SIGLEC11 that is expressed in brain cells called microglia. Although they can't yet explain the effects of the gene, it is interesting because it is one of the very few found only in humans and not in our ape cousins. This could make it a candidate for explaining some of the differences between us and them.

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Once you have that feeling of that great mystery, any piece of information feels like a treasure trove. Whether it's a name or a place where somebody once was, it's a form of a connection that you thought you were never going to have.

According to Fred Dick, a senior lecturer in psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, all the laboratories that have tried to find a language area have been successful in that they have indeed found dozens, even hundreds, of them.

There are many wonders in this world that will remain quite beyond your reach unless, in fact, you reach for them.

But … even if I did – which I didn't – how could I have found them myself, found them old and faded? If I only wrote them down myself – later? How can Sebastian have found them a hundred years ago – if I hadn't even written them yet? And where did the information come from?

We have rooms in ourselves. Most of them we have not visited yet. Forgotten rooms. From time to time we can find the passage. We find strange things . . . old phonographs, pictures, books . . . they belong to us, but it is the first time we have found them.

Creating never happens in those big gestures that the final product suggests in the end.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Ancient virtues may lay for many years dormant. It does not mean that they are dead. We Hobbits need merely discover them, plant them in new soil, tend our little garden with care, and wait with sunlit hope for them to spring leaf and flower again in a new age.

Uncharted territory," I said. "The parts on the maps of our lives that we don't understand. In cartographer's language they call these places sleeping beauties.

An afternoon drive down back roads, looking for something I couldn't put a name to. A route to some place where maybe my true life existed.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'.

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.

Mairi stared at Parlabane with an expression he had seen too often down the years: that look of distress at having discovered precisely how deep the rabbit hole goes, and what darkness lay at its end.

It was that he seemed...content to live in a wholly unexplored world.

At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of 2 leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahanä [San Salvador].

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, [and] herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Misattributed: Actually by André Gide.)