Quotes About Discovery

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

A teacher simply assists him at the beginning to get his bearings among so many different things and teaches him the precise use of each of them; that is to say, she introduces him to the ordered and active life of the environment. But then she leaves him free in the choice and execution of his work.

We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

Maria Montessori

the child has a type of mind that absorbs knowledge and instructs himself.

Your life is like a mosaic, a puzzle. You have to figure out where the pieces go and put them together for yourself.

Friends are where you find them, and sometimes you find them when you least suspect, in the oddest places at the strangest times.

Did her daughters really think they had a right to know everything about her past? What was it about discovering the truth that had made them both so indignant?

Oh, here. Here's the record player." Barney lifted a light-blue and white case from one of the eaves. She set it on a trunk and unlatched the lid. "Ever see one of these?" She held up a small plastic disklike thing. Cara and Allie both shook their heads. "This is an insert that you'd put inside one of the forty-five singles so they'd play.

Fritz had an older sister that he'd never thought to mention, and that his story about having had a terrible childhood that kept him from talking about his family was, as Barney had stated, bull.

Its entry is free, its paths are protected, and anything you fear will have been brought with you.

The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)

No one holds so much knowledge that he can find nothing more interesting to know.

You have to go through successive diluting and crystallization to find your true light.

Marianne Hering

Beth was surprised that Tesla had heard of Mr. Whittaker.

How did Mr. Tesla get inside the Imagination Station?

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Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.

It's a wonderful feeling to have one's brain stretched and tested, to know both that one has knowledge, and that one is gaining more.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Scientist believe in things, not in person