Quotes About Discovery

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

Siamo chimici, cioè cacciatori

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I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other.

few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.

he now knew with certainty that the world was hollowed of its wonder by knowledge and travel, that when one stripped away the mysteries, its dimensions collapsed rather than bloomed.

Squatting over it, I pulled it open. My clothes were neatly folded at the top. Robb hadn't stolen anything.

I mean, who could think about sneakers when an invisible building was waiting to be discovered?

There's no harm in taking a peek.

What a strange place to leave a camera. Why would someone put it here? If it were valuable enough to hide in a secret cabinet, why didn't he take it with him?

There are all kinds of worlds in the real world, she said softly. Most people don't know that. ~ (From The Nightmare Room #8, Shadow Girl)

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other: and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterward in the hope of being in Paradise again.

She wasn't absolutely sure who kissed whom this time. Maybe it was gravity tilting, stars exploding. It felt like it.... She gasped into his open mouth, and he moaned. Moaned. She had no idea a sensation could go through her like that, traveling through her skin and nerves like lightning.... Okay, this was kissing . Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a goodbye, this was Hello, sexy , and wow, she'd never even suspected it could feel this way.

will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer? The mirror's a great place to start

But – Michael, you said you didn't know Oliver, and–" "I didn't, until he killed me. We were never formally introduced.

Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.

What's her name? Claire, what's her name?

The unknowns wasn't full of terrors, it was full of undiscovered advantages. Better to run toward something than from something.

They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.

But the Library still held everything he'd ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips

We're not exactly going to the wilderness, Shane. You don't have to take everything. There are vending machines.

You have to schedule your epiphanies. And be patient.

Aristotle might have walked here, he thought. Might have scratched out that first copy of On Sphere Making, sitting at a table right over there.