Quotes About Discovery

Tja, angefangen hat das alles, als ich eines Tages darauf gekommen bin, dass der Hausmeister meiner Highschool der Würgengel war …

Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death…

When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you're only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good.

Election Day, 2016 was a historic blow to American journalism. It was as if we'd invaded Iraq and discovered there were no WMDs in the same few hours.

As I would later discover in my own career, there are a lot of C-minus brains in the journalism business. A kind of groupthink is developed that permeates the upper levels of media organizations, and they send unconscious signals down the ranks.

Only when we discover that the pain of being the way we are is greater than the pain of trying to change will we put forth the effort necessary to make significant progress on our inward journey.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Travel, she had discovered, was a delightful means of gratifying the intelligent curiosity that Dr. Johnson had called the root of all wisdom and culture. "I go to bed exhaustedly happy," she wrote in her notebook, "and wake up expectantly smiling.

He looked about the workroom, his eyes falling upon my integrator. "What manner of beast is that?" he said. "An unmannerly kind," I said. He extended a hand toward its head. "Does it bite?" "I don't know, but in a moment we may find out.

Matthew Hughes

One thing I have noticed about continuous learners is they tend to have pen and paper with them at all times, because they never know when they are going to hear something great or have an idea.

If you sense that something is missing in your life, stop ignoring it. Start paying attention to it. God is trying to tell you something.

Social media is like a drug that has been on the market for twenty years before they discover it is causing cancer.

The day you fall in love with learning, your life changes forever.

Loneliness is not brutal like that, but it can be a painful way to learn. Interestingly, solitude is the cure for loneliness. When we are afraid of being alone, we should go into it. Dive deep into it. Solitude teaches profound lessons, especially about ourselves. Feeling lonely has value. Sometimes we need to turn inward to discover what we need to hold on to and what we need to let go of.

Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.

Si un hombre debe morir, para que viva; debe estar vacío, para poder ser llenado; debe estar perdido, para que pueda ser hallado;

Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Second, they say it has been discovered before. Last, they say they always believed it.

The acquisition of knowledge, the sheer pleasure of finding things out, is the greatest gift in life.

Who the fuck is Old Jolene?

Stories are how we stand in the presence of mystery.

I was born with a reading list that never ends.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?