Quotes About Discovery

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

I feel now as though I've been sitting all my life inside a box, and suddenly someone is lifting the lid and I can look up and see the stars.

Not surprisingly, the kitchen was the most interesting, but only because I discovered a package of Oreos in the cupboard.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

Tried to be someone I knew that I wasn't I thought I could make myself happy with you

Red Riding Hood ran from her wolf," he told her with an edge of amusement. "Red Riding Hood didn´t know what the hell she was missing

A mon sens, dans ma façon de « voir », de « comprendre », l'image, la vision que propose ma photo, ne veut surtout rien « garder », seulement proposer un sentiment de découverte, d'approfondissement soudain, de perception de ce que j'appelle ouverture, de clarté qu'on pourrait dire intuitive.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.

The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

El amor halla sus caminos, aunque sea a través de senderos por donde ni los lobos se atreverían a seguir a su presa." Lord Byron Rosas al anochecer

But he who seeks the flowers of truth Must quit the garden for the field

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.