Quotes About Discovery

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.

Hey, Dad, you've got to taste what we just did. It's actually good. (Omari) That is good. What did you two do? (Devyn) No idea. We just added spices until it didn't suck anymore. (Omari)

I was desperate to discover what nothing felt like. It was the absence of something that attracted me. It was the start. Everything important originated with nothingness.

Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.

I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

I am going to seek a great Perhaps.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'

Opposing the father is no picnic and not opposing the father is no picnic—that's what he was discovering.

I discovered the whitewashed wall beneath the window slick and syrupy with an abundance of goo. Since I didn't know what masturbation was, I of course didn't know what ejaculate was. I thought it was pus. I thought it was phlegm. I didn't know what to think, except that it was something terrible.

Chekhov: 'The important thing is to find the right smile.

This is what happens when you write books. There's not just something that drives you to find out everything—something begins putting everything in your path.