Quotes About Discovery

I closed my eyes and tried to discover where the happy half of me was hiding. I felt the tears trickling through my tightly closed eyelids. I felt Whisper's claws tugging at my jeans. I wanted to be all alone in an attic like Skellig with just the owls and the moonlight and an oblivious heart.

She points at my chest. "And much more interestingly, what's that?" "Blood," I say. She gets her camera out.

Everybody's got somewhere to go. Just takes some folks longer to figure out where to.

Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge." He read the names off the

When I saw what was in there I felt like I had happened upon a treasure trove. Books! I pulled a goodly number of them out

The girl had never ridden in a car before. She had probably never even seen a car, just the old trucks used at the camp.

Reed said he could maybe find out where it came from back at his office. Check the certified mail records.

Not everything can be learned safely in a classroom, Vega. Education is not so neat and tidy.

to bring him back, alive rather than dead." Puller kept his mouth shut. "I want to know what you've found out

Small observations can lead to large breakthroughs.

convinced that they wanted him to find

rooms one by one until they came to the stairs.

scanning all compass points

Big F took out a small box, unwrapped

How did you get on to her?

this passage and escaped via the cafeteria or

Did you imagine that science was a disinterested pursuit of the truth? Well, you were wrong.

This is what I discovered during my imprisonment. I saw the human character in its naked form. I saw at one end a narrow rank of villainy, and at the other a narrow rank of virtue. In the middle was everyone else. And I understood that the state of the world is the result of the struggle between these two extremes.

new astronomy also had to adjust to the idea that what their senses told them everyday was untrue – that the world did not revolve around them alone.

free speech should be viewed as sacred and inviolable not simply for its own sake, but for utterly pragmatic reasons. Only through an active, vibrant, noisy ferment of criticism can blunders be discovered before they bring nations crashing down. Moreover, we can never tell in advance which criticism will later prove right; therefore, we must allow, foster, and even encourage all the criticism we can get.

I may not ever be able to be certain what is absolutely True... but I sure as heck can work to find out what isn't true!  Moreover, I can improve my model of the world, by slowly, carefully finding out what is truer than what I already know.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Jeffrey discovered that the truth was the opposite of what he'd always believed. He'd always tried to keep his weaknesses and vulnerabilities hidden because he thought they were so shameful. But in spite of all his wealth, power, and success, Jeffrey had never really gotten close to people or discovered any inner peace or happiness. In contrast, his human, vulnerable

First, you'd discover that the monster was not real. You'd realize that it was just an illusion that you never had anything to fear in the first place. You'd see that the monster had no teeth. This would be an incredible triumph.