Quotes About Discovery

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

In dealing with a change, a problem, or a discovery, awareness is often followed by a period of acceptance before we can take action. This process is sometimes referred to as the "Three A's" — Awareness, Acceptance, and Action.

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

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There was no denying it. Boys grabbed him. Their loveliness tore him apart. The world was a wonder after all.

She had to make her own marvelous mistakes.

Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.

Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going I'm on my way I'm taking my time But I don't know where

Cavett: What makes you stuck? Simon: Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck.

Fail often and fail cheap.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Between them, Kirchhoff and Bunsen developed the spectroscope, which uses a prism to refract light. As Newton had

earlier, the French positivist philosopher Auguste Comte had pronounced that certain kinds of knowledge would remain forever beyond the reach of science. For instance, it would never be possible to discover precisely what the stars were made of. Comte

For the first time, I understood on a gut level that those years of unprovoked emotional assaults weren't really about me. They probably resulted from his own sense of shame and his intense fears of being abandoned. The discovery that he was a victim, too, turned some of my anger into compassion.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..