Quotes About Discovery

There are about thirty of us," Turtle said with a shrug. "THIRTY?" Tsunami shouted. "I have THIRTY BROTHERS?

and a hero at first, but they didn't know

I guess Scarlet found that out the hard way.

I believe this," said Jerboa, "is our first visitor from the lost continent.

Guys, this is Riptide and Serious.

All right, he said slowly. It's a scroll.

I'm giving you the grand tour,

A secret hides within their book.

Tui T. Sutherland

Within complexity I discovered dharmakaya; within thought I discovered nonthought.

Those were the days when the three of them were smoking their first pipes, growing their first moustaches, having their first drunks and going with their first women, glorying in their release from meaningless discipline, in the prospect of earthly pleasures and an independent existence.

Ask dumb questions.

fundamental values are not chosen from thin air based on the desires of executives; they are discovered within what already exists in an organization.

I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...

Patrick Skene Catling

Patrick Skene Catling

The map? I will first make it.

I am compelled into this country.

The principle of scientific inquiry should not be limited to merely the practical or the possible, explained Sighter. Only by investigating the unlikely and the unthought-of is the sum total of knowledge advanced.

Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too much space.

If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out.

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another.

The idea that at each successive moment he was deeper into the Sahara than he had been the moment before, that he was leaving behind all familiar things, this constant consideration kept him in a state of pleasurable agitation.