Quotes About Discovery

And yet, even if one person finds his way . . . that means there is a Way. Even if I personally fail to reach it.

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

All day I searched shopwindows, record bins, bookstores, even a Greek bakery for a hint of what I can't say.

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would... and then someone passed me a bit of some sweet stuff, and suddenly I realized that I had been to China. So to speak. And I'd forgotten it.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

To get the best out of life here ...Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in love. Fall out of love. Gamble. Get drunk. See how long you can stay awake. Go for long walks at night. Discover what you're afraid of doing, and then do it.

He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it?

So Lyra and her dæmon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked towards the sun, and walked into the sky.

Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself.

Everything means something, Lyra said severely. We just have to find out how to read it.

Aveva detto una volta a Serafina Pekkala che a lui volare non importava, che era soltanto un lavoro come un altro, ma non parlava sul serio. Levarsi in alto, con un buon vento alle spalle e un nuovo mondo davanti: cosa poteva esserci di meglio in questa vita?

Finally, and almost simultaneously, the children discovered what it was like to be drunk. "Do they like doing this?" gasped Roger, after vomiting copiously. "Yes," said Lyra, in the same condition. "And so do I," she added stubbornly. Lyra

A genuine scientist would love the subject for itself; I think I love science for the stories that are told about it.

So, wondering whether any lovers before them had made this blissful discovery, they lay together as the earth turned slowly and the moon and stars blazed above them.

You know the theorem of Pythagoras?" "The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides." "That's exactly it. And is that true for every example you've tried?" "Yes.

Everything means something," Lyra said severely. "We just have to find out how to read it.

But if we get education right... it would acknowledge that the path to true learning begins nowhere else but in delight, and the words on the signpost say: "Once upon a time … - Isis lecture, 2003

I think we need to tell each other everything we've found out. And it'll take us a good long time, and we might as well keep our hands busy while we're doing it, so

And when Rusakov discovered Dust, at last there was physical proof that something happened when innocence changed into experience.

And was it true before Pythagoras realized it?" Malcolm thought. "Yes," he said. "It must have been." "So he didn't invent it. He discovered it." "Yes." "Good. Now let's take one of the alethiometer symbols.

Maybe it means nothing. It just is. Everything means something, Lyra said severely. We just have to find out how to read it.

Ik wist niet eens dat u Alice heette. - Lyra

Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?