Quotes About Discovery

La vida consiste en descubrir su propia naturaleza.

Cuando buscas la belleza en el universo, comienzas también a ver tu propia belleza.

I have not told the half of what I saw.

You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder.

You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

The knowledge of what we are ignorant of seems to expand faster than our catalogue of breakthroughs.

For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the wilds of the unknown.

In the early 1990s a PhD student by the name of Zhihong Xia proved that there is a way to configure five planets such that when you let them go, the combined gravitational pull causes one of the planets to fly off and reach an infinite speed in a finite amount of time.

Doufejme, že p?jdu do d?chodu d?ív, než n?kdo n?co takového objeví, takže už to nebude moje starost.

No, I'm talking about undiscovered science. A thousand years ago, people believed the earth was flat. Five hundred years ago, doctors thought diseases were caused by an imbalance in the humors. A century ago, visiting the moon was the stuff of fantasists. There are always things we don't know yet, and they always look like superstition until we understand.

the problem with looking for your glasses is that you don't have your glasses on while you're looking . . .

Bookstores are a giant present waiting to be unwrapped, full of stories and discoveries and lives.

All he felt was that same feeling he'd always had, that he was looking for something, whose name he didn't even know, and yet now, in the dark of the night and with his father had gone to wherever his mother had gone before, with Anna sitting beside him, he suddenly knew its name. Home.

Remember this: every man has to find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved. I believe that. You just have to find out what it is you're looking for.

What you are saying and the way you are saying it are very closely linked. I discovered that I always had to let the book I was writing find its own style. Only in that way can you be sure that you are doing the right thing by your subject matter. It's a strange feeling -- as if the book has a life of its own.

along a long narrow passageway, which opened into a hall, and they saw

And that was how the young writer found love, just when he had stopped looking for it.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.