Quotes About Discovery

Aunque entonces no lo sabía, yo estaba buscando el nombre del viento.

En buena parte, la razón por la que vine a este rincón del mundo era con la esperanza de encontrarte.

She pulled the cork and sniffed it. "What's in it?" "Sunlight," I said. "And a smile, and a question.

Los hechos pequeños nos llevan al gran conocimiento -recitó-. De igual modo, los nombres pequeños nos llevan a los grandes nombres.

So you went looking for a myth and found a man,

Quizá sea propio de la naturaleza humana buscar cosas ocultas.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answer

A long road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of introspection.

Alors, tu as trouvé ? a-t-elle demandé. - Quoi donc ? - Mais, ce que je fais là ! a-t-elle expliqué avec un gentil sourire. Je me suis posé cette question toute ma vie. Je m'étais dit que tu en avais peut-être une idée...

If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass.

Is this..." Chronicler hesitated, looking around. "Are we in Newarre?" Kote nodded. "You are, in fact, in the middle of Newarre.

Me di la vuelta, mientras se me pintaba una sonrisa en la cara. Siempre me pasaba lo mismo: solo la encontraba cuando había abandonado toda esperanza

By contrast, what did I have to offer? Nothing really. Less now. I was more like a curious stone that is picked up, carried a while, and finally dropped again with the realization that for all its interesting look, it is nothing more than hardened earth.

Both ends of Wains were blocked by fallen rock and earth, but in the middle it was clean as a crucible. Everything dry and tight as you please. No damp. No mold. No drafts to bring in dust. Altogether men or no, it was a seemly place, so Auri was careful to comport herself with full decorum. There were twelve oak doors lining the hall. All fine and tight and bound in brass. Over her long years in the Underthing, Auri had opened three of them.

Let me say this. It was worth the whole awful, irritating time spent searching the Archives just to watch that moment happen. It was worth blood and the fear of death to see her fall in love with him. Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love, so light she probably didn't notice it herself.

Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.

Aleshores em vaig adonar que ignorava el nom de l'assignatura de l'Èlodin. Viag fullejar el registre per buscar el nom del mestre i després vaig retrocedir amb el dit cap al lloc on constava el títol de l'assignatura, escrit amb tinta negra i fresca: <>.

I loved the discovery chemistry offered. I loved the thrill of experiment, the challenge of trial and retrial. I loved the puzzle of it. I also will admit a somewhat foolish fondness toward the apparatus involved. The bottles and tubes. The acids and salts. The mercury and flame. There is something primal in chemistry, something that defies explication. Either you feel it or you don't.

Sometimes finding nothing can be finding something.

The deeper we went, the stranger things became.

There was obviously more to the story, more that I needed to know.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers... That way, when he finds the answers, they'll be precious to him.

I found what I had wanted most, yet it was not what I expected." He motioned for Chronicler to pick up his pen. "As is often the case when you gain your heart's desire.

when he finds the answers, they'll be precious to him. The harder the question, the harder we hunt. The harder we hunt, the more we learn. An impossible question