Quotes About Discovery

And so I came on the discovery with no warning. Religion must be for trusting. And trusting, what is that for? I figured it out: It helps you go on when you can't go on.

Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection—complex

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

No knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. What we say a man "knows", should, in strict psychological language, be what he "discovers" or "unveils"; what a man "learns" is really what he "discovers", by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

day when you do not come across any problems you can be sure that you are travelling on the wrong path

Put romantic love at the center of a novel today, and who could be persuaded that in its pursuit the characters are going to get to something large? That love is going to throw them up against themselves in such a way that we will all learn something important about how we got to be as we are, or how the time in which we live got to be as it is. No one, it seems to me. Today, I think, love as a metaphor is an act of nostalgia, not of discovery.

?nsanlar?n mutluluk, a?k, sevinç olarak adland?rd??? ?eylerin hepsinin yanl?? faraziyeler üzerine kurulu yanl?? hesaplar?n bir birikimi oldu?unu ke?feden herkes, kalbinde sadece korkunç bir bo?luk bulacakt?r.

Kolmogorov – Poincaré – Gauss – Euler – Newton, are only five lives separating us from the source of our science.

Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

She knew that nothing she could imagine could approach the strangeness of the expidition's first contact with non-Terrestrial beings. She could not predict what would happen. It was the sense of immersing herself in strangeness that she sought, knowing she would have to meet the reality with equanimity, and wing it from there.

I guess I had never bothered to consider that there might such a thing as a boy, but now that I had found one, I thought it was just about the most wonderful concept in the world. He smelled of mud and sugar and an animal I'd never scented before, and a faint meaty odor clung to his fingers, so I licked them.

The mother is a Chihuahua. The father, we're thinking Yorkie." "Max, you're a Chorkie!" CJ smiled down at me.

You've been using my body when I was asleep?

This one is a rocket, Bailey," Ethan told me, showing me a toy shaped like a stick. But what use was a sticklike thing that smelled too bad to chew? I turned my nose away. "We're going to land one on the moon one day, and then people will live there, too. Do you want to be a space dog?

Bryan threw the ball to Dad. Dad threw it back. Bryan swung the stick again. He hit the ball! Now we were really playing. The ball sailed toward the fence. I ran after it. The goslings ran after me. And then something amazing happened. Something I had never seen before. Brewster ran. He heaved himself up and lumbered across the yard. He wanted the ball! It hit the fence and bounced off, right at him, and he scooped it up!

Almost anything can be found in a book.

If you look at a dog following the advice of his nose, he traverses a patch of land in a completely unplottable manner. And he invariably finds what he's looking for.

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

Knowledge may have its purposes, but guessing is always more fun than knowing.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.