Quotes About Discovery

I love traveling, because you're escaping into life instead of hiding from it.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.

he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life

We are our own terra incognita, the country on maps where dragons lurk.

in early 1854 Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple was sent to map a route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Whipple was a thirty-seven-year-old West Point graduate from Massachusetts, known for his competence and conscientiousness

Traveling with more than a hundred men, from engineers, cartographers, and geologists to astronomers, meteorologists, and botanists, as well as soldiers and guides, Whipple trudged through present-day Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, into what would become Arizona, on a path that vaguely foreshadowed today's Route 66. The group was guided along the way by Indians — Creeks, Shawnees, and Zunis. But it was the Mohaves who would lead Whipple on the final leg of the journey.2 On

It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

Gee Whillakers!" whistled Benjamin. "Think of owning a trick pup and never knowing it!" He scratched Whiskers behind his upstanding black ear, and then behind her floppy white ear. He smoothed her whiskery face. "Think of it," he repeated softly, "Whiskers a trick pup! Me with a trick pup!

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.

Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say…

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. RAINER MARIA RILKE , Letters to a Young Poet

Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.

Did he just say stormsharks? My inner nerd is elated. Can anything I will ever hear from now until the end of time sound cooler than stormsharks?

I need to get onto Aza's ship. I know where it's going. I think I know, even though all I really know, all I've really known since I was five, is that Aza is my universe.

Wonders have been born before. Sometimes they've been worshipped. There've been new things over and over, and some creatures have fallen groaning to the ground and others have learned to fly.

We especially need imagination in science.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.