Quotes About Discovery

He went down and found the body floating. Francis had been dead about an hour. In one of his hands, clutched so that they could barely unfasten it, was a rusty nail.

Alla fine, sotto la sporcizia che le copriva il viso, comparve un vago rossore.

Their love was not in question. What was in question was what they would make of it.

Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.

Za pochodu si vytvárame svoj vlastný vesmír.

Las ciencias mecánicas ofrecen en tierra, en el aire, en las costas, posibilidades ilimitadas de novedad y de sorpresa, salidas de la forja o del laboratorio.

Leggere libri è il gioco più bello che l'umanità abbia inventato.

Y si todo esto sucede en un laboratorio? ¿Bajo sólo una lámpara de día y miles de millones por la noche?

Read good poetry and read it well, tracing the countless incarnations of every word. These are after all the same words lying dead in dictionaries or leading a gray life in speech. Then why do they shine like new in poems, as if the poet had just discovered them?

Esperti degli spazi dalla terra alle stelle ci perdiamo nello spazio dalla terra alla testa.

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not where ships belong.

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

But as I would later learn, Soon-Yi was not just a diamond in the rough but round cut and flawless

There I was at fifteen, on the hook, confronted by Matisse and Chagall, by Nolde, Kirchner, and Schmidt-Rotluff, by Guernica and the frantic wall-sized Jackson Pollock, by the Beckmann triptych and Louise Nevelson's dark black sculpture.

Eureka! I remember now, I accidentally came upon my parents having sex, and the trauma that I've long repressed has caused my inordinate fear of being nailed shut in a cello case.

If you want to learn something, just steal it.

El infierno es una fiesta tan maravillosa, que solo después del primer mes te das cuenta que aquello es un castigo.

No sé si me entendiste: buscabas al amor como al trabajo de publicista, con muchísimas ganas de no encontrarlo.

Thálatta! Thálatta!

Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.

Thalassa, Thalassa!

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that makes you feel like a beggar? Why enter this jungle of foreignness where everything is new, strange and difficult? The answer is the same the world over: people move in hope of a better life.

We believe what we see. So did Columbus. What do you do when you're in the dark?