Quotes About Discovery

whatever shape nature takes, it offers each child an older, larger world separate from parents. Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11)

Design is a discovery process, as we implement we discover new information, often impossible to know up front. By accepting that design is an ongoing and empirical process in a forever changing world, we learn that the design process must be flexible and ongoing too. Clinging onto your original designs and trying to force them through is only going to end up with one result so you need to learn to understand that it will never look like that.

There may be more to learn by climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

Robinson could do with three or four facts what prehistorians achieved with stray dinosaur bones:

If someone really interests you, you'll learn about them yourself.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island.' Walt Disney.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104

I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.

Sometimes it takes travelling the world to realize that it isn't ok to be different, it's freaking awesome!

It is oftentimes a blessing to not know our limitations. It's the only way to accomplish the impossible.

We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. Alan Christoffersen's diary

There is not only more to each soul's journey than we imagine, usually there is more than we can imagine.

For the third time since I began, my walk has been delayed. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions---but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey. No matter how much I, or the rest of humanity wishes otherwise, life is not lived in smooth, downhill expressways, but in the obscure, perilous trails and rocky back roads of life where we stumble and feel our way through the fog of the unknown.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

Jade Dragon will go.

Sometimes, it's only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all.

Earlier today Ian and I sneaked over to take a look at it.

I had locked from him the deepest chambers of my fear, only to discover that he had his own key.

Descobri que as experiências mais significativas de nossa vida raramente ocorrem quando as esperamos, e muito frequentemente quando nem sequer estamos prestando atenção." - A Promessa -

Prologue When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.