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Quotes About Discovery

Maybe, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this, in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. My
~ Jacqueline Woodson
But sometimes living pulls back the skin of another life. A possibility.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers to them most truly.
~ Jacques Lacan
A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.
~ Jacques Lacan
Through the discovery of Buchner , Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.
~ Unknown
En el Valle de México la búsqueda arqueológica ha sido fructífera; prácticamente no se puede abrir una zanja sin encontrar restos del período azteca o de épocas anteriores
~ Unknown
Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course. It happened to me at Le Mourillon on that summer's day, when my eyes were opened to the sea.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Time and again we have come across phenomena eminently worthy of being investigated - only to have them disappear before we could make eve a visual record... Without being unduly pessimistic, I would say that, for every success we have had in filming or recording a matter of scientific interest, we have had ten failures. - p 46 Life and death in a coral sea
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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~ Unknown
Tay knew that if he gave the Hong Kong police what he had discovered, they wouldn't have been able to touch Albert Chan. He doubted they would have even tried.
~ Unknown
Education is like an OCEAN where you can see some different CREATURES with different Abilities
~ Unknown
Trust me, there are things in this mountain that will make your jaw bounce off the floor.
~ Unknown
Isn't it the most blissful thing in the world to be away from everything you have ever known--to be so far away that you don't even know yourself anymore and you're not sure you ever want to come back to all of the things you're a part of?
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I had one more thing to add to my expanding world.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; Columbus never set foot there but only named it in passing, after a church in Spain.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
We are not alone. In this vast Universe. The universe is too huge. Not to have other living beings, besides us. One day in the never future. We will get the surprise. We have been waiting for. And it will be mind bugling. Beyond our wildest dream. We are definitely not alone. It is too good to be true. The others we seek were here before us. And they will greet us again. In good time. You can believe it or not. It will happen."
~ Unknown
He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters.
~ Unknown
We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.
~ James A. Michener
You ever see a cute, furry alien?
~ James A. Moore
Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.
~ James Allen