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Quotes About Discovery

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
~ Paul Dirac
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
~ Paul Dirac
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.
~ Paul Dirac
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
~ Paul Eldridge
Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.
~ Paul Feig
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
~ Unknown
Number 18, Rue Dennequin.
~ Paul Gallico
My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
~ Paul Getty
They searched for unity almost in unison. (Einstein and Schrodinger)
~ Unknown
That May, Einstein excitedly informed a friend, "In the tranquility of my sickness, I have laid a wonderful egg in the area of general relativity. Whether the bird that will hatch from it will be vital and long-lived only the gods know. So far I am blessing my sickness that has endowed me with it.
~ Unknown
Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes
~ Paul Hoffman
Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.
~ Paul Hoffman
Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.
~ Paul Hoffman
When people go looking for something, they often find something else.
~ Paul J. McAuley
One day something will come through that will amaze us all.
~ Paul J. McAuley
J.M. Barrie was right; it is an awfully big adventure!
~ Unknown
The amount of footprints underneath indicates how far they are too, and the closer you get to the Pokémon, the number of footprints will go down.
~ Unknown
We weren't sure we located the Gabriella until this spring." Barrett tapped a black metal box resting
~ Unknown
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
~ Paul Kurtz
How then, in the time that followed, did I become someone I didn't know?
~ Unknown
Where are we going?" Tony said. "Somewhere wonderful," Unlikely Worlds said.
~ Unknown
to escape the deepening grip of multinational corporations and the Coca-colonisation of the weird. Out here, you could still have your mind eaten by an alien phantom, stumble upon a lost city, or discover a fraying thread of some kind of weird quantumised metamaterial that could kick-start a new industrial revolution and make you a billionaire. Out here were places not yet mapped. Old dreams and deep mysteries. A world wild and strange and still mostly unknown.
~ Unknown
It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
~ Paul McCartney
You already speak German; you just don't know it yet.
~ Unknown