Quotes About Discovery

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.

But hitherto she had been like some young captive brought up in a windowless palace whose painted walls she takes for the actual world. Now the palace had been shaken to its base, and and through a cleft in the walls she looked out upon life.

Even now, however, she was not always happy. She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.

one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

Women ought to be free—as free as we are, he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

It was as if all the latent beauty of things had been unveiled to her. She could not imagine that the world held anything more wonderful.

To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.

It was in a tiny Venetian church, no more than a chapel, that Lewis Racie's eyes had been unsealed—in the dull-looking little church not even mentioned in the guidebooks.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

îÈ™i d?duse seama c? fusese obiÈ™nuit s? vad? în c?s?torie un liman sigur, când de fapt era mai degrab? o peregrinare pe m?ri necunoscute.

It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.

I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew; it tends to set the reader himself in the track of invention, and to direct him into those paths in which the author has made his own discoveries, if he should be so happy as to have made any that are valuable.

Oftimes it haps, that sorrowes of the mynd Find remedie vnsought, which seeking cannot fynd.

They cannot finde that path, which first was showne, But wander too and fro in waies vnknowne . . .

And later times thinges more vnknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene? What if within the Moones fayre shining sphere, What if in euery other starre vnseene Of other worldes he happily should heare?

For me, as for many kids, words had a magical (and sometimes sexual) aura, and I would look up in my mother's medical dictionary words such as penis , intercourse , or homosexuality , exciting words no matter how dispiriting the definition, exciting just because they appeared in print.

That's one of the problems—and joys—of old age: every time you read a book it's the first.

Whoever has not known the pleasures of open stacks—with their erotically charged corridors.

Youngsters can plunder a text and find what they want in the margins.

he was like a man on the brink of his own creation.