Quotes About Discovery

Pierre's insanity consisted in the fact that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and, loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them.

Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) - and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals) can we hope to discover the laws of history.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

Leon M. Lederman

Nature hides the simplicity in a thicket of complicating circumstances, and the experimenter's job is to prune away these complications.

Those who have taken the side streets have changed the way people live on this planet. But those who stay with The Road find that it is clearly marked all the way with the same sign: "How does the universe work?

You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.

Marita, Please find me, I am almost 30

To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.

BREAVMAN KNOWS a girl named Shell whose ears were pierced so she could wear the long filigree earrings. The punctures festered and now she has a tiny scar in each earlobe. He discovered them behind her hair.

I am not the one you are looking for. You are not the one I've stopped looking for.

If I knew where the good songs were, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

I confess I meant to grow wings and lose my mind I confess that I've forgotten what for Why wings and a lost mind

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

and I abroad, and there I searched

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

You're wasting your time," he said. "You don't learn how to discover things by reading books on it. And psychology is a bunch of bullshit.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself

Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." — THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.