Quotes About Discovery

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream

From the very first country I visited, I knew I was not on this trip just for sightseeing. I did enjoy all the new experiences, but I had a strange certainty that I was being guided toward something I could not yet see.

The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.

Perhaps far outward on the rim of space a genuine star was similarly seized and flung... For a moment, we cast on an infinite beach together, beside an unknown hurler of suns... I have caught a glimpse of what man may be, along an endless wave beaten coast at dawn

Science can be--and is--used by good men, but in its present sense it can scarcely be said to create them. Science, of course, in discovery represents the individual, but in the moment of triumph, science creates uniformity through which the mind of the individual once more flees away.... Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of mind alone.

only those who have risked going out too far can possibly learn just how far one can actually go?

It bypasses Watt Lake and heads way up into the forest and mountains out the

And she isn't certain yet that this is the woman her husband was seeing.

As she held her new baby in her arms, it had hit hard—it was the first time in her life she was looking at family who looked like her. And it made her think that there were more people out there of her blood. Her curiosity grew intense.

He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Archaeologists estimate that Washington was among the first populated zones in North America—human remains in the state date back 13,000 years.

But what are we so afraid of? It's not as if we're going to peer in those darker corners, flip on the light, and find a bunch of cockroaches. Fireflies love the dark too. There's beauty in those places. But we have to look in there to see it.

Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent.

Lost people are different. They will drive around in the same circle over and over rather than try a new path. Their fear of getting more lost paralyzes them into staying lost in the area that's just become familiar. It supersedes their ability to chart a new course. They circle and backtrack and stay comfortably lost because it's less scary than seeing something different than what's presently in front of them.

Experience is what you get when you didn't know what you wanted.

I chose the path less traveled but only because I was lost. Carry a map. - Phoebe Traeger

Tara moved into the kitchen and went still at the condition of it. Formica countertops, she said as if she'd discovered asbestos.