Quotes About Discovery

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

The river was nowhere and everywhere, for he could not decide which of a hundred green lagoons offered the most pleasant and least speedy path to the Gulf. So he traveled them all, and so did we. He divided and rejoined, he twisted and turned, he meandered in awesome jungles, he all but ran in circles, he dallied with lovely groves, he got lost and was glad of it, and so were we. For the last word in procrastination, go travel with a river reluctant to lose his freedom in the sea.

He is the prospector of the air, perpetually searching its strata for olfactory gold.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

Y si leo, si compro libros y los devoro, no es por un placer intelectual —yo no tengo placeres, sólo tengo hambre y sed— ni por un deseo de conocimientos sino por una astucia inconsciente que recién ahora descubro: coleccionar palabras, prenderlas en mí como si ellas fueran harapos y yo un clavo, dejarlas en mi inconsciente, como quien no quiere la cosa, y despertar, en la mañana espantosa, para encontrar a mi lado un poema ya hecho.

Todo viajero es la mitad de sí mismo. No hay lugar en los aviones para llevar las cosas que lo completan. Esquinas, gestos, personas, vientos, olores, tapiales, saludos, colores y miradas no caben en las valijas.

el verso perfecto estaba al final de un camino lleno de espantos

Enseguida el niño comprueba que ha sucedido algo mucho más terrible que los fantasmas sin forma que venían atormentándolo: en un segundo, su vida ha transcurrido en su casi totalidad. Sus padres están muertos hace mucho. La casa es otra. Nadie escucha su llanto.

La verdadera misión del arte es sanar, y sanar es descubrir la belleza de nuestra alma.

El topo es un animal que cava galerías bajo la tierra buscando el sol y a veces su camino lo lleva a la superficie: cuando ve el sol, queda ciego.

La verdad. Qué cierto es eso de que cuando llevamos mucho tiempo buscando la verdad, el día que por fin la descubrimos llega lo más difícil. ¿Qué hacer con ella? Lo curioso no es tanto haberla tenido delante de nuestros ojos todo el tiempo y no haber sabido verla hasta el último momento. Lo realmente curioso es que cuando por fin aparece, la verdad no permite largos plazos. Exige actuar, normalmente con urgencia.