Quotes About Discovery

Keep in mind, just because you don't know the answer doesn't mean that one does not exist. You simply haven't discovered it yet.

New Chapter about New Things

In the corner near her grandfather's bed she saw a short ladder against the wall; up she climbed and found herself in the hayloft. There lay a large heap of fresh sweet-smelling hay, while through a round window in the wall she could see right down the valley.

Going up to the Alm-Uncle

Study Bach, there you will find everything.

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

The treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo . However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else.

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens... The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking for fresh nourishment.

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance....These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of truth....In such manner did I dream of the truth.

Ships and sails proper for the heavely air should be fashioned. Johannes Kepler to Galileo 1609

I discovered books and read forever

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

This is the internal tragedy of love. If love is successful, if our love is returned and develops into a relationship, the person we are with must turn out to be other than we imagined them to be. Love craves closeness, and closeness always brings us face to face with something other than we expected.

Friendship with children unwraps their hidden potentials.

Trapped in every stranger is a hidden friend.

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much more than a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self.

that language may be a compound code, and that the discovery of an enormous complexity beneath a simple surface may well be more dismaying than delightful. E.g.: the maze of termite tunnels in your joist, the intricate cancer in her perfect breast, the psychopathology of everyday life, the Auschwitz in an anthill casually DDT'd by a child, the rage of atoms in a drop of ink - in short, anything examined curiously enough.

he felt that a treasure-house of new fiction lay vaguely under his hand, if he could only find the key to it.

What was your name before that?" I asked. "Frank," she said.

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.