Quotes About Discovery

May your wonder always exceed your certainty.

They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

Cops do this every day, rifling closets and digging through your dildo drawer.

I don't think I could find the Philippines on a map." "Yes you could, the maps have all of the countries labeled. That's literally what a map is for.

I stared at the thing, blinking, thinking it would reveal itself to be, I don't know, a hot-water heater or something. Then I realized the monster-shaped shadow was, surprisingly, a monster.

I wake up in a mood that I know will lead me to assault the very first person who asks me if the two-day rentals have to be back on Wednesday or Thursday. I had worked at Wally's Videe-Oh! for five years, been a manager for two. I started right after I dropped out of college. At the time I had heard that Quentin Tarantino got discovered while working at a video store,

What followed had been … frantic. The underwear actually wound up with a little rip in them. She had found one of his animal buttons.

It is both mysterious and miraculous that roughly the same intelligence necessary to flake a barbed spearpoint is sufficient to discover the theorems of mathematics. In a different universe, it might have been otherwise. And so human beings would have been spared the tragedy of existing half as ape and half as god.

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.

To the Ends of

LEARNING IS DISCOVERING THAT SOMETHING IS POSSIBLE

It's not the journey or the arrival but the return that often becomes the most revelatory

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot The

at the end of all our exploring we will arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

intrepid outward exploration of the landscape and a revealing inward journey of the self. These are the things that keep me going, the lust for exploration and the quest to better comprehend who I am and what I'm made of.

I had listened to my heart, and this is where it had led me

near Staten Island

Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.

You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me you.

There was nothing more promising than the first stage of a new expedition. Everything was possible in that moment; there was no past, no future, only that hollow in time when everything paused.

No Julia necesitas aventuras. Necesitas un amante unas vacaciones en el extranjero. Tienes que cortarte el pelo y nadar desnuda en un río. Necesitas comer cosas que nunca hayas visto y hablar lenguajes que no conoces. Necesitas besar a un hombre que haga que te fallen las rodillas y que te acelere el corazón. -Portia

Julia, why are you smiling?" "Because," I told him happily, "it's only our first night in this house and we already have two mysteries to solve. A most excellent beginning.