Quotes About Discovery

He also discovered that when he touched certain parts of the brain, he triggered long-lost childhood memories or dreamlike scenes—which implied that higher mental activities were also mapped in the brain.

Moskowitz became a world leader in the use of neuroplasticity for treating pain only after making some discoveries while treating himself. A

We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless-a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.

Merzenich mapped a monkey's entire hand map. He began by touching the monkey's first finger and seeing which brain area started to fire. Once he found its brain map and defined its borders, he went on to the next finger. He found five finger areas, side by side for each of the five digits. Then

Then in 1998, two reseachers, Frederick "Rusty" Gage, an American, and Peter Eriksson, of Sweden, discovered such new cells in the human hippocampus. (This discovery is described in detail in Chapter 10 of The Brain That Changes Itself.)

One of these scientists even showed that thinking, learning, and acting can turn our genes on or off, thus shaping our brain anatomy and our behavior—surely one of the most extraordinary discoveries of the twentieth century. In

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

There are other special problems connected with the discovery of ancient cities. Alexandria was ravaged by fires and street fighting, and its ancient waterfront is underwater. Some discoveries at Pompeii were not revealed for many decades, because the wall paintings are so pornographic.

Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith. If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God." —JAMES TOUR

Truth is discovered, not invented. It exists independent of anyone's knowledge of it. (Gravity existed prior to Newton.)

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

The solution to the problem of identity is, get lost

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.