Quotes About Discovery

I felt like everyone else had gotten this instruction manual that explained life to them, but somehow I'd just missed it. They all seemed to know exactly what they were doing while I didn't have a clue. That is, until I found drugs and alcohol. Then it was like my world suddenly went from black-and-white to Technicolor.

She had Googled psychogeography, just to make sure she wasn't getting it wrong. It was, she discovered, about playfulness, about drifting around urban environments, about getting away from your normal routes, about opening yourself up to randomness.

from the hook on the door

Frieda felt that her heart was like some old chest that had been heaved up from the seabed, its barnacled lid prized open after all this time. Who knew what treasures she would find inside?

The hole was a couple of meters wide and two, two and a half meters deep. It was empty. No, there was something there. A heap of rolled-up rags? No... An animal? A dog? No... What was it? It was hairless... white... a leg... A leg! I jumped backwards and nearly tripped over. A leg? I took a deep breath and had a quick look down. It was a leg

The seventy-four-gun Defence took advantage of the dark to have a closer look:

the technology existed.

He could even have come by air, as individual balloonists already had.

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.

Google filters out serendipity in favor of insularity. It douses the infectious messiness of a city with an algorithmic antiseptic.

Maps codify the miracle of existence.

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

puesto que de ese modo puede conseguir su manumisión, mientras que mendigar envilece el espíritu. Por fin, tras indagar varias veces la dirección, logramos encontrar el camino que conducía a la puerta de Adad.

Like so many other would-be students of the mind, I had gone to sea to see the world, only to discover that all I was seeing was sea. Not even that: I was down below decks, studying the engine room of mental life, with no clear sense of where the ship was steering.

Cultures of the fungus Penicillium have also been grown from sediment sampled 127 meters below the floor of the Pacific Ocean.15 This is a mystifying discovery, because we have no idea what a filamentous fungus is doing down there with no oxygen and so little to eat.

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

Time has told me Your're a rare, rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind

I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she'll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.

I have plenty of places to go, but no place to be.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

Kant's great discovery—but one that he never admitted to—was that apodictic reason is incompatible with knowledge. Such reason must be 'transcendental'. This is a word that has been propagated with enthusiasm, but only because Kant simultaneously provided a method of misreading it. To be transcendental is to be 'free' of reality. This is surely the most elegant euphemism in the history of Western philosophy.

I believe in the power of origins, a belief that, as Ecclesiastes put it, 'that wich is done is that wich shall be done: and there is no new thing under de sun'; that we claim as originality and discovery are nothing but the airs and delusios of our innocence, ignorance, and arrogance: that whatever is said was said better - more powerfully, beautifully, and purely, long ago

Only the curious have something to find.