Quotes About Discovery

Who knows what's in here? Could come in useful.

When he counted his change, he found only coins from the year he was born.

There was more to life than being fat and safe and warm in a clockwork luxury resort. Or maybe there wasn't more, but he was going to find out. And how did you find out? You had an adventure. That's how. You picked up a golden key.

Ya?am?n?z?n belli bir döneminde olaylarla ilgili bak?? aç?n?z?n tümden de?i?ti?i, o ana dek gördü?ünüz her ?eyin henüz bilmedi?iniz öbür yüzünü size döndürdü?ünü ans?z?n fark etti?iniz oldu mu hiç sevgili okurum?

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on Music, and stopped after chapter two. McCartney said he was concerned that if he learned more about how he does what he does (as far as composing music), he may not be able to do it anymore!

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

These places are not wilderness; the "unknown" lies inside us.

He thought he saw an AlbatrossThat fluttered round the lamp:He looked again, and found it wasA penny postage stamp."You'd best be getting home," he said,"The nights are very damp."

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

When I was nine, my life was devoted to seeing a tit. I was Captain Ahab, and it was my big white whale. I'd go down to Sears on a Sunday in hopes they'd remove a clothing from a mannequin. Sad but true, sad but fuckin' true.

What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my 'experience,' and my urge to explore.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.

I left England when I was 19 for two years travelling on my own and since then I've always had an urge to go abroad.

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less.

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.

I don't know all that I'm searching for, but I just have this sense of desperation and urgency within me all the time that I just have to keep going.

I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.