Quotes About Discovery

The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

Vauxhall. I like to use the public housing a few blocks away for my little adventures.

often started in a different hemisphere.

You are learning what you aren't writing, and this is helping you find out what you are writing. —Anne Lamott

1. Buy experiences instead of things

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

As the Dude says, New shit comes to light, and when it does, you'll pick it up again.

When you encounter a problem, recognize that your solution likely is right alongside the problem itself.

What you were always longing for is already staring you in the face and doesn't look anything like you expected it to.

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.

There are deeper reasons to travel—itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

A big surprise for W.D. was discovering that Clyde and Bonnie both prayed frequently. The religious faith ingrained in them by their mothers hadn't been entirely abandoned.

The best ideas in science are always simple, elegant, and unexpected

Atticus, Dan is right, Atlantis is a myth." "Everybody was pretty sure Troy was a myth," Jake said. "Until Calvert and Schliemann found it.

it was the nature of being a person, and everything they did—every single thing, in school or at home, with others or alone, conscious or unconscious, meaningful or nonsensical, every single thing—was geared toward discovering what exactly it meant to be a person. The meaning would always elude them, because elusiveness was in fact its very heart.

Some flavor of all of this would have remained undiscovered to me. If you try to observe the world for long enough through the perfect lens, then one day it will surely settle permanently into place, and then every object is a still life. You live in the moments between blinks.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. —WILLIAM JAMES

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

I have not failed. I've simply discovered ten thousand ways that don't work.

to get something built; rather, it is to learn if we're building

I think his discovery scared even him. Sometimes Frankenstein has to kill his own monster.

What else kills monsters?" Lou shrugged. "Direct sunlight?" "Well, Lou, I'm afraid we already know his weakness isn't direct sunlight, because we've seen him out in the direct goddamn sun!" "We're brainstorming! You don't criticize ideas in a brainstorming session!

I don't have any blood?" "Not a drop. It's being stored in jars in a freezer somewhere in the facility. Do you want to see it?