Quotes About Discovery

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

Turned out there was some big, bad Wolf in my good boy after all.

It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different" -Salma

Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

This is what travelers discover: that when you sever the links of normality and its claims, when you break off from the quotidian, it is the teapots that truly shock.

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

Learn a new language and get a new soul.

In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out And stood in the light, licking its tail.

Poetry is an attempt to penetrate the dense reality to find a place where the simplest things look as new as through the eyes of a child.

You will find what you want to find.

Every great discovery or decision comes by an act of divination. Facts are fitted round afterwards.

If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedgeDriven by invisible blows,The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

Hobey-ho here we go.....

I can take a book in my hands and voyage across the world. China, Burma, Jamaica—the very sound of the words is an enchantment bringing me sights and sounds, and odors that my senses have never savored.

Someday, she was convinced, somebody would find out that she was an imposter in the adult world.

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.