Quotes About Discovery

Te îndr?goste?ti de ea? - E prea devreme s? îmi dau seama.

It's the drunkenness of all the new things that can be.

The trauma of discovering her body, unmoving in the brackish water of the bathtub, had aged him ten years.

The boy came to believe that going west was more than just a fancy for someplace new. He came to see it as a part of his soul, a missing piece that could only be made whole on some far-off mountain or plain.

He came to see it as a part of his soul, a missing piece that could only be made whole on some far-off mountain or plain.

In the foyer of their building they displayed a large globe, one of the few in Philadelphia. On his way home from school each day, Hugh stopped in the office, spinning the globe on its axis, his fingers exploring the oceans and mountains of the world.

Prowl along the fringes of residential neighborhoods until you find the word "sucker" scratched into a tree or fencepost, usually with an arrow indicating the proper house.

one of the fun things about being a scientist is being able to make up new words)

The jigsaw puzzles have so many missing pieces, we play a game called What the Fuck Is That.

Every excursion or expedition we take is a story, an inner narrative that we sometimes don't even realise we're following.

When people talk about training, they generally mean taking an amorphous mind and shaping it into something. It is the sort of thing that goes on at universities that are not yet in possession of high-quality students. It is not the sort of thing that should go on at serious centers of discovery. Mentoring, on the other hand, is productive, necessary, and enjoyable.

George grinned and observed that success is always grounded in simply asking the right question

Our role as geometers is to discover the inherent proportion, balance, and harmony that exist in any situation.

We] cannot and should not expect to rediscover the full body of ancient wisdom by studying dusty monuments and myths full of idioms and subtle references understood only by those who lived at the time. The perennial wisdom requires each individual and age to discover it anew in external mathematics, expressing it in ways and symbols suitable for those times and cultures.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Today, we are able to do what your parents would would have dismissed as impossible and your grandparents as nothing short of magical.

Sometimes when I start a sentence with no idea where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.

still looking for

When Watson and Crick announced that they had discovered what they called 'the secret of life' in 1953, they were merely rediscovering something alchemists have always known.

Entonces sabrás que Albert Einstein aseguraba que la imaginación era más importante que el conocimiento, puesto que este último está limitado a lo que sabemos mientras que la imaginación abarca un mundo aún por descubrir y comprender.

Reading opens the soul to new journeys.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink? That is deep and sacred science.