Quotes About Discovery

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

De radeloze man bezocht een aantal boekhandels en bladerde in tientallen albums van Suske en Wiske maar vond geen spoor van gelijkenis met de verfrommelde, vlekkerige brochure die hij opgerold in Celia's jaszak had gevonden en waarin Suske met een volwassen lid Wiske sodomiseerde terwijl ze beiden op een schommel zwierden en Tante Sidonie zich bezighield met een Coca-Colafles.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

It is a flower that can be opened in many way...Unfold the petals of [your] stories one by one and [you] will see a great deal.

Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.

Juan de Grijalva, coincidentally the first European to smoke on continental American soil

Two of its members, Rodrigo de Jerez and the interpreter Luis de Torres, had even gone so far as to try the custom for themselves, thus becoming the first Europeans to smoke tobacco.

Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.

The Falls of the Tsangpo had offered turn-of-the-century explorers a geographical quest to rival the search for the headwaters of the Nile. But the Tibetans—who knew of it already—did not view the falls as a topographical trophy but as a sacrament, a threshold between the physical universe and the world of the spirit.

As I followed the accounts of Tibetan pilgrims, as well as those of Victorian and Edwardian explorers, Pemako became for me a realm of unbounded possibility, a place where geographical exploration merged with discoveries of the spirit.

The German sociologist Niklas Luhmann once observed that the simple act of asking yourself, "Where did I put my keys?" performs unexpected magic: it transforms the world into a catalog of possible key locations.1 Under the couch, somewhere the dog or the baby moved

fun isn't the experience of pleasure, but the outcome of tinkering with a small part of the world in a surprising way. Think

To treat things with respect and intrigue, we don't need to understand their motivations and inner lives—whatever knowing the inner life of a tangelo or a floor tile would mean.4 We just need to pay enough attention to discover what they do and how they work—to discover what they obviously and truly are—and then to make use of them in gratifyingly novel ways. And

But games aren't magic, and the most special thing about them isn't unique to them anyway—their artificial, deliberately limited structures teach us how to appreciate everything else that has a specific, limited structure. Which is just to say, anything whatsoever. Play isn't our goal, but a tool to discover and appreciate the structures of all the malls and fishbowls we encounter. Once

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

I jerked the blankets right back off her, and there she was with her nightdress up around her neck. It was a shock to me that, her starting to look like a woman." [Jimmy about Molly]

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

Purpose of Life: Understand Who You Are Believe In Yourself.

The warm days of Firestreak are usually good for travellers in the world of Amarillia.

She left the pneumatique at the next stop and went to see what she had done to the world.

BeeJee &ersenn

Destinations are false goals; it is the Way Gone that matters.