Quotes About Discovery

I travelled among unknown men in lands beyond the sea . . .

The Truth is Out there

Uno sabe que tiene madera de villano cuando descubre en cada límite ajeno un desafío propio.

You should take [dogs] to hunt on different grounds at different times, in order that you may experience varieties in the chase, and that you yourself may become acquainted with the country.

I felt an urge to conquer this new village.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

After sitting for so long in the ruined cabin, the objects we had taken must have been shocked when we pulled them out into the world. I could almost sense their fear, coming through the bags.

In these pages, the Professor had walked beyond beaten paths, looking for truth in a place no one knows.

Ribbon, bell, emerald, stamp. The words that came from my mother's mouth thrilled me, like the names of little girls from distant countries or new species of plants. As I listened to her talk, it made me happy to imagine a time when all these things had a place here on the island.

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one.

He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

I feel empty when Root isn't here," I said. I hadn't really been speaking to him, but the Professor murmured in reply, "So, you're saying that there's a zero in you?" "I suppose that's what I mean," I said, nodding weakly. "The person who discovered zero must have been remarkable, don't you think?" "Hasn't zero been around forever?" "How long is forever?

As I headed down the library steps, I turned back to look. The mathematics stacks were as silent and empty as ever. Apparently no one suspected the riches hidden there.

Poate c?, de fapt, nu era nici un caiet al lui Dumnezeu, ci în întregul univers se aflau dou? feluri de fiinÅ£e – un num?r de fiinÅ£e special înzestrate, care puteau înÅ£elege o parte din aceast? ordine, ÅŸi noi toÅ£i ceilalÅ£i, care de-abia puteam aprecia descoperirile lor.

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

No one actually witnessed the first numbers come into being-when we first became aware of them, they'd already been around for a long time.

In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it's not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.

So, a great Indian teacher of mathematics discovered the zero written in God's notebook, and, thanks to him, we can now read many more pages in the notebook. Is that it?

there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth.

No era una vergüenza el no saber, sino solo una señal que podía llevar hacia una nueva verdad.

Igual que algo que se hunde y reposa sobre el fondo de un lago al que no llega la luz, así escapan los recuerdos a nuestro alcance. Pero si alargas el brazo lo suficiente bajo la superficie del agua, tus dedos rozarán aquello que los ojos no ven. Cógelo y tráelo a la superficie, donde la luz volverá a iluminarlo.

So who was it? Who discovered zero?" "An Indian mathematician; we don't know his name. The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing.