Quotes About Discovery

The first cameras, typewriters, and television sets were as awful as Otto's seven-foot-tall gas engine. That makes it difficult for an inventor to foresee whether his or her awful prototype might eventually find a use and thus warrant more time and expense to develop it.

and went on to colonize the next island again. It was a hitherto unprecedented

Tasmanya'n?n Avrupal? kaÅŸiflerce MS 1642 y?l?nda ilk keÅŸfedildiÄŸi zamanki taÅŸ teknolojisi,Yukar? Avrupa'n?n on binlerce y?l önce Yontma TaÅŸ Ça??'ndaki teknolojisinden daha basitti.

On this voyage, you will witness the marvels that this city has brought the world. It

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

You a brave person?' 'I don't know.' 'You'll find out soon enough.

The only thing you really get to figure out after a lifetime of study is that there's more stuff to figure out. Frustrating and enlightening at the same time.

Said by Maltcassion the Dragon: Humans, he scoffed. Always so inquiring about stuff. Never satisfied with the status quo. It will be your downfall, but oddly enough, it´s also one of your more endearing features. Do we have any otheres? Oy yes, plenty.

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are generally disappointed when they figure it out.

You'll pass or my name's not Jennifer Strange." "Your name's not Jennifer Strange." "What?" "You're a foundling. You don't know what your name is.

I . . . I . . . didn't know I could do this." "What you mean is that you did know that you couldn't—it's quite a different thing.

O brave new world, that has such stories in't!

La seguii, e constatai che quello scavo era di natura archeologica. Dei pioli conficcati nel terreno erano collegati da una cordicella, per delimitare l'area in cui quei volontarii picconavano il suolo, cercando di fare meno rumore possibile.

You can lose yourself in a book, but you find yourself in Poetry

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

I watched her leave, smiling to myself. I thought I knew my mother but I didn't. Children rarely know their parents at all.

porque los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede...un escritor no escribe nunca acerca de lo que conoce, sino precisamente de lo que ignora.

Porque uno nunca encuentra lo que busca, sino lo que la realidad le entrega

A veces tengo la impresión de que escribo para entender la vida

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Professor Bullfinch had taken up the obsidian ax, and he hefted it thoughtfully. "I should hate to have to turn this against a person," he said. "Still, a scientist should not shrink from new experiences