Quotes About Discovery

It was entitled Somebody Else Is on the Moon. The author's name was George Leonard.

By this technique of measuring, the oldest Earth rocks found so far date only to 3.5 billion years ago. The Moon missions returned some 900 pounds of rocks and soil samples. From these, a curious factoid was ultimately revealed in 1973: some of the Moon rocks dated back to 5.3 billion years ago. Thus, between

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suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness.

In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions.

The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that are disused and overgrown and silent. To a child there is more joy in a rubbish tip than a flowery rockery, in a fallen tree than a piece of statuary, in a muddy track than a gravel path.

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes.

The only way out is deeper in. It's what you don't yet know that can save you.

Mine your words as if digging for diamonds and gold.

find Nardik, and we'll find Hu Chang." "It will be okay, Catherine," he said quietly. "I know you're

Every day should be an adventure, not a treadmill

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

And although he usually has a rather nervous voice and is jumping up and down like a kangaroo, he says this with complete nonchalance and to top everything off, he runs his hand across his head, which seems to be a particular habit of men who don't have any hair that could be out of place. And then they get in a bad mood, because they've made the unpleasant discovery that it's all smooth up there.

I always listen in on conversations — that always interests me. You never know what you might learn from it.

Hitch-hiking is a situational stage for karmic expression and discovery. "Getting there" is simply an excuse for the opportunity to go below our cultural facades and come face-to-face with the realities of living.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.