Quotes About Discovery

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren't.

Learning how to do SM is like learning how to have sex all over again.

I think about going away myself, living a whole different life, like I could exist on a different planet and this life wouldn't know about me, and I wouldn't know about it.

Cruz and Jeff looked at her. She did not appear to notice. Her attention was on the cavern.

shortcut to the Chamber ruin. He can't be too far ahead. I'm going after him." "This island

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Ask nature questions, and you will get answers.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas everyday!

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

when Divine seeks out the lost Alberto, she tries to portray him on herself and invents his smile with her own mouth. She puckers her muscles in what she thinks is the right way, the way–so she thinks when she feels her mouth twisting–that makes her resemble Alberto, until the day it occurs to her to do it in front of a mirror, and she realizes that her grimaces in no way resemble the smile we have already called starlike.)

Tu veux savoir ce qu'il faut faire, et tu ne connais pas seulement le monde où tu vis. Tu comprends que quelque chose est contre toi, et tu ne sais pas quoi.

Si on pouvait seulement aller jusqu'au premier peuplier ! Le voilà ; puis le deuxième, le troisième !

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.