Quotes About Discovery

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I found myself driving along a desolate back road with a dead body in the trunk.

The creative state is the most important part. None of it means anything if you're not excited by the discovery of what you're making.

I find it's almost impossible to put two words together and not find at least some meaning. We're conditioned to look for patterns and identify mysteries to solve much more than we are designed to dictate what we're searching for. I recommend allowing that natural curiosity and our sense-making brains to do their thing.

What you make of the song or what the world will make of it is of little concern when contrasted with the joy that I've talked about many times now—the joy of disappearing long enough to find something you didn't know you had inside you.

If you don't know your passion, it confuses your mind, not your heart.

We were always finding each other and losing each other and finding each other again, and that was just the way of us.

If I don't have real answers, it is because we still don't know what questions to ask.

In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as part of a celestial tapestry revolving around the earth but as individual planets had had to wrench their imaginations--and thus their analogies and metaphors--out of a grooved track that had been running through everyone's minds for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Imagine these expeditions, and then recognize that they all still exist in Area X in some form, even the ones that came

Can you really imagine what it was like in those first moments, peering down into that dark space, and seeing that? Perhaps you can. Perhaps you're staring at it right now.

This was really the only thing I discovered in him after his return: a deep and unending solitude, as if he had been granted a gift that he didn't know what to do with. A gift that was poison to him and eventually killed him. But would it have killed me?

We're astronauts. All of the expedition members have been astronauts.

I aimed my flashlight at the ground—and leapt back, gasping. Incredibly, a human face seemed to be rising out of the earth.

For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

Logica brengt je van A naar B. Verbeelding brengt je overal.

He was as lost in this day as a chick wet from the egg.

because material composition so unquestionably entails motion (making a sculpture or a shield or a painting requires motion just as much as walking or horseback riding or rising from one's chair does), we may be predisposed to discover it in mental composition as well.

O que a gente não conhece é sempre mais atraente do que aquilo que temos.

Em tudo há alguma coisa de bom. A questão é descobrir onde está.

Em geral, conseguimos encontrar em qualquer coisa que nos deixe contente, se procurarmos o bastante.

There is a middle road in which you don't hold back or push forward too much. That's the road to be explored.

Del azar de lo leído depende lo que eres