Quotes About Discovery

The particulars of new places grabbed me and held me, the sweep of new coasts, cold, lovely dawns. The world was incomprehensibly large, and there was still so much to see.... I liked surrendering to the onrush, the uncertainty, the serendipity of the road. And I generally liked being a stranger, an observer, often surprised.

...the curious hunter-up of rare quotations... the young and struggling scribbler...

Hardin lived in a world he manipulated day to day, you never knew when a piece of information might have a use. Life was a jigsaw puzzle someone had kicked apart on the day Hardin was born and he was still putting it back together a piece at a time.

Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them. —CORMAC MCCARTHY, Child of God, 1973

What advice Phelan could possibly have given him. All these myriad differences between the world he was discovering and the world he'd been taught. There was nothing in Yeats or Eliot or Browning to cover this: had the situation been reversed, Phelan would probably have been coming to him for advice. He wondered how Eliot would have fared against the look in Sutter's dead eyes.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

The function of science is to investigate truth. Science is colorless and impersonal. It

Truth lies deep, and must be digged for. Since

use all means for the discovery of sin, and as it breaks forth to be humbled for it, and be chopping at the root of it with this axe of mortification, and thou shalt see by the blessing of God what a change for the better there will be in the constitution of thy grace. Thou

Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.

In Bible-story journeys, ain't no journey hopeless. Everybody finds what they suppose to find.

His early researches were pursued partly in the spirit of a young gentleman's entertainment, which happened to be science instead of fighting or politics or gambling.

I keep [a] subject constantly before me," Newton once remarked, "and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

Honey, you are a baby in this world and don't know how to howl yet.

Simplicity is not a given. It is an achievement, a human invention, a discovery, a beloved belief.

For those who chose to build off modernism, fiction became a field for radical explorations in narrative form and voice. Writers set out in search of new techniques that could serve as sources of discovery and offer unique opportunities for amplifying the potential meaning of their subject matter.

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.

We would rather explore the far side of the moon or the bottom of the ocean than the hidden depths within ourselves.

Dicho científico decidió desarrollar un aparato que contara el número de veces que una partícula surge y desaparece en un segundo. Denominó, con gran acierto, al aparato que había inventado: "cámara de burbujas", y se encontró con que una partícula subatómica surge y se desvanece 1022 veces por segundo.

As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.