Quotes About Discovery

We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late.

I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I'm just living a life where a part of me is missing.

I've always found that the best experiences in life are the ones you didn't plan, the ones you stumble across and they just happen

Letter writing is a habit that allows us to explore new trails all our lives. Each day is a fresh new adventure when we regularly send and receive letters.

The supreme good—to examine everything—a life which was not devoted to such research would not be worth living. Happiness would thus consist in their never-ending quest. PLATO

There is something unique about the size, and shape, and feel of a real physical book, and there is a real discovery about running your eye along a line of books and picking one out because it somehow LOOKS right.

Lonzo made a show of patting down his pockets "Damn, I must have left my rope and grappling hook in my other pants.

Which way should you run to escape this world?

Aprender a dar pasos como un tímido niño que necesita aún solícito cariño; hallar que cada cosa es vieja, pero es nueva, que dentro de lo eterno lo viejo se renueva y en la hora en que vuelve la excelsitud de amar saber que algo en nosotros es capaz de volar.

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find A meaning suited to his mind.

When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.

There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Self-discovery is a slower process but a more natural one.

Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

The vast majority of young people I meet would benefit so much from a year off. You should just go waste a year in exploring the beauty of the world and trying the craziest experiences you can.

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What I can't take is meeting someone, going on a date, getting to know them, then finding out they're a complete psycho - 'Great, I've just wasted all this time on you!'

I wasted so many years just traveling and sitting in hotels, searching for things, not knowing.

No amount of money and time spent travelling is wasted.

For ages I thought I'd wasted my career doing visual effects, I wanted to be a filmmaker. And then I've learnt at the end of it all that actually visual effects was probably the best training ground I could have had.

I don't think we're wasting people in space.

One of the nice things about becoming a stand-up, one of the great things about becoming a stand-up, is you realise you haven't been wasting all those years you thought you'd been wasting.

I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.