Quotes About Discovery

On the collector card that came with chocolate frogs

Chris Columbus

In The Forbidden Forest

Privet Drive

Nine And Three-quarters

Through the Trapdoor

Newt Scamander

The winged keys

To those who will see, the world awaits.

I loved learning about the history of things

For every virus that we know about, there are hundreds that we don't know anything about,

Your father has gone off to find himself." She turned and looked at me for the longest time. "He wants to make believe he's someone else.

Not to have known about this! That here, That nowhere else in the wasteful, wilful, Death-wishing world, here Röntgen focused his ray And the eye first saw right through the skin, So that now without knives we see what is wrong Or is going to be wrong. We still need a ray To coax the delicate wings from the commonplace husk And detect why the horde we are destroys itself.

The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecular level—is a loud, clear, piercing cry of "design!" The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin.

Explaining how the two of them, up there in the Green Mountains, had managed to dial down life's urgencies and dial up its pleasures and richness, Gary put it beautifully and poetically: "We've discovered a way" he confided with a sense of gleeful wonderment, "to bend time." I imagined Tracy and me engaged in a similar conspiracy a dozen years or so from now.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

We have forgotten how to see anew, the way a child sees, everything brimming with the excitement of discovery. We have labeled and categorized everything, and we have lost the newness of seeing. Practice seeing your relatives, your family, your life partner, and your closest friends as totally new people every day. Put aside yesterday's images and concepts of who they are, and experience them anew, each day.

Is it any wonder that no cure for cancer has ever been revealed?

We enjoy doing science; why shouldn't we enjoy reading it?

But secrets never, ever disappear, even after they are revealed. And that's the real secret right there. The empty space that never gets filled. The entropy of falsehood. The real secret is the secret itself.

Hunt had thought of the name while watching his children playing with one of the hot novelties of the period, the Wham-O company's high-bouncing Super Ball.

Weerlegging is geen ramp, maar de voorwaarde tot de vooruitgang van de wetenschap. Als we dingen met onweerlegbare zekerheid aan de weet konden komen, was er geen wetenschap.

And the light kept darkness away until the Morning Star came and found it burning

There was truly something special about the instances when one's eyes were opened to the magic of the Amazon basin.