Quotes About Discovery

But why the last? I ask. Why not live each day as if it were the first— all raw astonishment . . .

We are afraid of the things we do not know—just because we do not know them.

The imperial imagination enabled European nations to imagine the possibility that new worlds, new wealth and new possessions existed that could be discovered and controlled.

What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.

Archaeology and memory are two ways of trying to retrieve and keep the past, both of them fallible, fascinating and doomed to be incomplete.

When a peculiar fact or well-stated bit of information triggers a poem, most of what I'll need is there where I stumbled on it. If questions arise later (moons of Jupiter, a three-syllable squid), Google is awfully handy of course.

Ecological concerns are daily news now (alas). And poets have been writing all along about stars and roses; it's not such a stretch now to bring in the Hubble telescope or dark matter or genetics.

Go on rummaging, brushing off dust, though you may find later that it was the dust you wanted.

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Mathematics is the most beautiful world. Everyone has their own entry key and the freedom to discover as much of it as they want.

New walks. More threads. Better spots. Bigger spreads.

I want to find something I've wanted all along Somewhere I belong

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

Second star to the right-" "-and straight on till morning? Yeah, I've heard that one before. Lit of the Ancient Homeworlds 101....

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.