Quotes About Discovery

Close one Pandora's Box and we open another, the President said. That's science for you, Mr. President.

Second star to the right and straight on to morning.

My invariable criterion for whether a poem deserved to be included in these pages was this: that it should be able to surprise and delight the common reader. Every page should be a source of pleasure and discovery.

Why bother to go through life if you can't do interesting shit?

you are a journey all of your own, and I hope you enjoy yourself in the rest of it.

Like Ward Cleaver finding out that June had

The maddog was intelligent. He was a member of the bar. He derived rules. Never kill anyone you know. Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used. Isolate yourself from random discovery. Beware of leaving physical evidence.

The supermarket was a twenty-minute walk. Shay used the time to work on the thumb drive's password. Supposedly, the files on the drive were filled with horrible and inhumane things being done to animals, but Shay's only interest in discovering the password was to learn who

Heart of Darkness

After a fast lunch, Lucas, Letty, and Skye went over to Swede Hollow Park to look for other travelers. They found three, sitting together, passing a joint, and Skye told them about Henry—one of the three knew him—and asked about Pilate. None of them knew him, or had heard about him.

Lipsky said: "I'll tell you something, Layton: ninety-five percent it's nothing. Probably somebody shot a buck out of season, and you were smelling the gut dump. Those can be pretty hard to see in the dark, once they go gray. But, five percent, we gotta go look.

You don't mess with astronomers, Joe.

with The Joy of Sex, which he found under the bed—when

He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

Never forget to factor in the Oort cloud

On the sixth day, Jared and the rest of the 8th finally figured out what that sex thing was all about. On the seventh day, and as a direct consequence of the sixth day, they rested.

All right, first question. Where the fuck am I?" The person Kiva Lagos addressed sat at a small desk in a small room and appeared amused. "I thought your first question might be who the fuck am I." "All right, fine. Who the fuck are you?" "My name is Captain Robinette." "Hello, Captain Robinette. Charmed. Where the fuck am I?

Well, 'explode' maybe isn't the most accurate term. What actually happens is much more interesting.

One day I'd like to visit this planet without having to toss myself down its atmosphere.

They found no colonists, but they found parts of them. And a lot of blood.

Welcome to the fucking universe! The universe is a fucked-up place, my friends.

When you find them, blow them up a little for me.