Quotes About Discovery

William King

for geometry, you know, is the gate of science, and the gate is so low and small that one can only enter it as a little child.

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

But it is not enough to be told a word as big as that. You have to live with it, carry it around with you. You have to pace around and around it, see it from different angles, at different times of day, in different light, until you understand, until it enters you. You have to hold it inside yourself in secret for years, like the hideous stone inside a peach. How

Man's condition ought to impel him to seek to discover whether there is a God and a solution to his predicament. But people occupy their time and their thoughts with trivialities and distractions, so as to avoid the despair, boredom, and anxiety that would inevitably result if those diversions were removed.

Scientists used to think that whatever the very early universe might have been like, given sufficient time and some luck, intelligent life forms would eventually evolve somewhere. As a result of discoveries over the last fifty years or so, we now know that that assumption was wrong; in fact, quite the opposite is true.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

There are two kinds of adventurers those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

Even more remarkable—and a key reason Bob invited me to Hasanlu—was the object cradled in the arms of the front runner. The object was a bowl (or a vase, or a beaker): a metal vessel measuring about eight inches high, seven inches across the top, and six inches across the base. The falling walls had flattened the bowl, of course, along with the guy carrying it.

There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

once believed I was a foundling with royal blood—Plantagenet, I think it was. I don't know how I managed to get on my parents' doorstep,

Go not as told by others, But by other ways go.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

I don't like questions. They invent the answers. The real answers are discovered, before you even know what the question is.

The road, it seemed, was a river and he was the only one who knew the stepping-stones.

William McIlvanney

I've gone to the bottom of the well," Hunter said, "and the animal's not down there.

Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found. Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found.

E=mc2 is even better than the best poetry: "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

If you feel safe in the area you're working in, you're not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you're capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don't feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you're just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know by Edwin Tenney Brewster.

science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.