Quotes About Discovery

as great poets do when the tyranny of rhyme forces them into the discovery of their finest lines.

And so it is with things that we shall later love the most. We meet them first as strangers who give us only a feeling of surprise.

Swann made a hobby of collecting scraps of 'real life')

I had been struck, as we came away, by the discovery that this young man, so generous when he was far less rich, had become so stingy.

Indeed it seemed to me, in the moments when I suffered the least, that I almost benefited from her death, for a woman is all the more useful in our lives if she is an agent of sorrow rather than an element of happiness, and there is not a single woman whose possession is as precious as the truths which she enables us to discover by making us suffer.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those we had regarded as not being lived at all : the days spent wholly with a favourite book

Although it is rightly said that there can be no progress, no discovery in art, but only in the sciences, and that each artist starting afresh on an individual effort cannot be either helped or hindered therein by the efforts of any other, it must none the less be acknowledged that, in so far as art brings to light certain laws, once an industry has popularized them, the art that was first in the field loses retrospectively a little of its originality.

For when it is in the hope of making a priceless discovery that we desire to receive certain impressions from nature or from works of art, we have qualms lest our soul imbibe inferior impressions which might lead us to form a false estimate of the value of Beauty.

The unknown element in the lives of other people is like that of nature, which each fresh scientific discovery merely reduces but does not abolish.

All this had been a source of pleasure to me, but that pleasure had remained hidden; it was one of those visitors who wait before letting us know that they are in the room until all the rest have gone and we are by ourselves.

In reality we always discover afterwards that our adversaries had a reason for being on the side they espoused, which has nothing to do with any element of right that there may be on that side, and that those who think as we do do so because their intelligence, if their moral nature is too base to be invoked, or their straightforwardness, if their penetration is feeble, has compelled them.

Monelle found me in the plain where I was wandering and took me by the hand. "Do not be surprised," she said. "It is I, and it is not I; "You shall find me again, and you shall lose me; "Once more shall I come among you; for few men have seen me, and none has understood me; "And you shall forget me, and you shall recognize me, and you shall forget me.

I have woken up to find that I am made of words.

traveling allows you to discover things that remain hidden during the normal routine of daily life.

As the island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance –the boundary between the known and the unknown. Learning more about the world doesn't lead to a point closer to a final destination but to more questions and mysteries.

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

It's what we don't know that matters.

If large portions of the world remain unseen or inaccessible to us, we must consider the meaning of the word "reality" with great care.

Apenas aqueles que passaram longos anos buscando a verdade, imersos na escuridão da ignorância, podem compreender o júbilo transcendente da descoberta.

What is the stuff that makes everything that is?" they asked. That this remains the defining question of modern particle physics serves to show that the value of a great question is that it keeps generating answers that, in turn, keep changing as our methods of inquiry change.

humana é capaz de desvendar todos os mistérios. Isto é

Healthy science needs a combination of humility and hope: humility to accept the extent of our ignorance and hope that new discoveries will illuminate the current darkness. However, when we are at the edge of knowledge and data is not forthcoming, well-grounded speculation is the only strategy at our disposal. Without imagination science stagnates.

Search warrant or no, it always felt weird to me to walk into the house of a stranger. But there's also a voyeuristic fascination: what a person chooses to surround himself with tells you a lot about him.

parents were dead. We hadn't found his birth parents yet. He hadn't gone to college, his high school records were archived somewhere—we had unis working on it—and his elementary school