Quotes About Discovery

there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven.

The mathematical order is beautiful precisely because it has no effect on the real world. Life isn't going to be easier, nor is anyone going to make a fortune, just because they know something about prime numbers. Of course, lots of mathematical discoveries have practical applications, no matter how esoteric they may seem. …. But those things aren't the goal of mathematics. The only goal is to discover the truth.

Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

El mundo es de quienes van a buscarlo.

Bad weather doesn't give you ideas about going to visit a flower garden.

All men and women go through the same fog.

The basis of drama is ... is the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realizes that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilization and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. The example Aristotle uses, of course, is Oedipus.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

As I was discovering, even the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.

Courage makes people face the unknown and find their own paths.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

The world is full of healing; you just got to know where to look.

You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

Travelling', she sighed.'So predictable.' 'What's wrong with travelling?' 'Avoiding reality more like.' 'I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.

And by the time the train pulls into the station, I find myself actually relieved that Emily's only a figment of my imagination.

A veces uno es consciente de cuándo están produciéndose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre al mirar el pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas." James Salter, Quemar los días

A veces uno es consciente de cuándo están produciéndose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre al mirar el pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas.»

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay… That's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.