Quotes About Discovery

Lo sai, quando giocavamo all'avventuriero e all'avventuriera, tu eri quello a cui capitavano avventure ed io ero quella che le faceva capitare.

it is not only oneself that one discovers in the cogito, but also the existence of others.

Nothing has changed and yet everything exists in a different way. I can't describe it; it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure is happening to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here: it is I who am piercing the darkness, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.

Science starts with a question.

This discovery led to an important question. How does the brain make predictions? One potential answer is that the brain has two types of neurons: neurons that fire when the brain is actually seeing something, and neurons that fire when the brain is predicting it will see something. To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality. Using two sets of neurons does this nicely. However, there are two problems with this idea.

We are not consciously aware of most of the predictions made by the brain unless an error occurs. Trying to understand how the neurons in the neocortex make predictions led to the second discovery.

History shows that the best solutions to scientific problems are simple and elegant.

Discovering a useful reference frame is the most difficult part of learning, even though most of the time we are not consciously aware of it.

Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.

Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.

Vince looked where I pointed. "Salvia divinorum," he said. "Hey, you think so?

Curiosity, as the saying goes, killed the cat. And it has frequently proved lethal to nonfelines as well. And

I blinked. I had just had another thought, something very significant; I was quite sure of it. I didn't know what it was, but I knew it was there. I rewound my thoughts, marching them by again at a slower speed. I sat up even straighter in my chair as I scanned—and there it was. I don't know if I found it because I had such excellent posture, but just in case, I sent a little mental thank-you card back through time to Mrs. Parker.

I went to the refrigerator for a lite beer and discovered they were all gone. And at some later point I was sitting on the couch again. The television was on and I was trying to figure out what the actors were saying and why an invisible crowd thought it was the most hilarious dialogue of all time.

She smiled and took her hand away. "Good," she said. "So, um, have you found anything that's, you know. Something that might help?

I flipped through my file and found his name: George Kukarov. He lived on Dilido Island, a very nice Beach address not too far from his club.

You must always remember to check beneath the layers of things to find the truth.

The more beautiful the package, the harder it is to unwrap.

In any conversation, it's often something that seems quite insignificant at the time that gives you the piece of information you're looking for.

Some clever children don't discover how bright they are until after they've left school,' continued Mr Holcombe, 'and then spend the rest of their lives regretting the wasted years.

At least, not until she met Patrick Casey, who proved that the charm of the Irish was not just a cliche.

And then he realized—it had to be Tom Bradshaw's father.

On entering the little green-walled

Adam took one hand off the handlebars and fingered the envelope in his inside pocket like a schoolboy the day before his birthday feeling the shape of a present in the hope of discovering some clue as to its contents. He felt certain that whatever it contained would not be to anyone's advantage now his father was dead, but it did not lessen his curiosity.