Quotes About Discovery

You don't find life by fleeing from it.

Once truth was known, it could not be unlearned, nor could it be forgotten, but lay always in the heart, a darkness for which all the years ahead would be spent seeking whatever light could be found to compensate.

Even someone like Mrs. Bonnaventura, who had lived a mostly blameless life, when ushered into the awesome presence of the Creator of the infinite universe and also of the butterfly, would discover ten thousand fearsome new layers of meaning in the word humility.

I had no idea where he went when he was not with me. Perhaps he enjoyed exploring new places as much as did any living dog, and went off to wander previously unvisited neighborhoods of Magic Beach.

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: I guess I'll find out.

We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried. If we are good at waiting, we discover that what we wanted of the future, in our impatience, is no longer what we want, that waiting has brought wisdom.

peering in the starboard window of the cargo

and they believe he or she might have gotten as far as Jacob's Ladder, her island, her home.

Joanna Rand

The island is Ringrock

His name isn't Hurkos. He doesn't remember his name.

In life, deep and terrible secrets are usually revealed not when you're searching for them, but when you least expect them and are unprepared.

On the road that I have taken, one day, walking, I awaken, amazed to see where I have come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

Carson Conroy's

Robert Heinlein's The Star Beast was

In a nightstand drawer are a car key labeled with a license plate number

That was when you discovered she'd recently begun using PCP—what's sometimes called 'angel dust' on the street.

My plan was to drive to Peptoe, Arizona, and track down the three men who found me in a bassinet

The guy was lying on his back, mostly in shadow, with only the lower half of his body revealed in the dirty-red light, and at first Ken and Teel didn't realize what a horror they'd stumbled across. But when he knelt beside the corpse, Ken was shocked to see that the man's gut had been

science fiction

by woods beyond the yard.

I have seldom crossed the city line of Pico Mundo and have never been beyond the boundaries of Maravilla County) The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.

for whom arrest warrants were outstanding. He sought the name Nathan Palmer—and began to make a list of curious facts.

When a scientist tells you that 'the science is settled' in regard to any subject," Lamar said, "he's ceased to be a scientist, and he's become an evangelist for one cult or another. The entire history of science is that nothing in science is ever settled. New discoveries are continuously made, and they upend old certainties.