Quotes About Discovery

the discovery of speed.

his own world lived in constant discovery of its own ignorance.

Exactly what I said: she's still a child in many ways, so she's discovering all the fine and noble causes for the first time, and she still sees each one as a discrete unit: she hasn't seen the connections or contradictions among them; not yet.' She

Life is short, the world is wide, and I wanna make some memories.

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.

I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and what music they listened to, wanted to look under their beds and in their secret drawers and night tables and inside the pockets of their coats.

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?

Bleakly, Harriet gazed out into the antiseptic gloom. A weight lay upon her, and a darkness. She'd learned things she never knew, things she had no idea of knowing, and yet in a strange way it was the hidden message of Captain Scott: that victory and collapse were sometimes the same thing.

I've been thinking a lot about what Hobie said: about those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.

you can live many lives by reading books.

I had never been to Brooklyn and didn't know a thing about it but I liked the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into?

She'd learned things she never knew, things she had no idea of knowing, and yet in a strange way it was the hidden message of Captain Scott: that victory and collapse were sometimes the same thing.

We do not create meaning out of a text; rather, we seek to find the meaning that is already there.

Truth, like murder, will out some day.

Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

I think I have something growing inside of me.

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost." DANTE ALIGHIERI, The Divine Comedy

There wasn't supposed to be any bear on this island; according to Google, there wasn't supposed to be any animal here larger than a raccoon. But what if Google was wrong?

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

Porque alguien me escucha y quiere descubrir el enigma de los malestares de mi cuerpo, estos malestares cobrarán un sentido en mi historia; tal vez así podrán desaparecer alguna vez".

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Until the discovery of hydrothermal vents off the Galápagos Islands in 1977, scientists assumed that life on earth was photosynthetic and belonged to the surface. It was the other way around: photosynthetic life came later, when cells strayed to the top where they were cooked for millions of years before evolving a way to absorb the light, and all the while the chemosynthetic life in the abyss was evolving a stability we cannot hope for.