Quotes About Discovery

The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

Ko samo nogom kro?i sa pravoga puta, na?i ?e se neo?ekivano na drugim stazama koje ?e ga vu?i sve niže i niže.

I love that I never know who I'm going to meet next in New York. Sometimes I imagine all these millions of kids who have come here like jeweled doorknobs marked "turn me." It's an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of city.

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election

There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man 'discovered' through an election.

To truly "learn" history means to open your eyes and discover the forces that cause historical events to happen. The art of reading and of learning means remembering the important parts and forgetting the unimportant.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence.

I saw an exhibition of paintings of alchemists once,' said Ruth. 'It used to be a popular setpiece. There was one I liked by Joseph Wright of Derby?of an alchemist who'd accidentally discovered phosphorus. He's just crouching there, staring in amazement at his test tube or alembic, or whatever you call it. A bloody good painting, actually.

They have all sipped from the Drink Me bottle. They have all unwound the clew of red thread. They have all fallen through the looking glass.

Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.

Here was my choice: I could continue down the well-trod path upon which I'd been running for so very long and pass along the inheritance like a baton, as blithely as I did my light hair and fair skin. My daughter could do her best to outrun it... Or I could slow down, catch my breath, and look mindfully for a new path. There had to be another way and I owed it to my daughter to find it.

Blink, and you'll miss your treasure. Blink again, and you'll realize that the truth you thought was completely hidden, has materialized some ungainly part of it revealed under new conditions.

Piece by piece I seemto re-enter the world.

There is a ladder.The ladder is always therehanging innocentlyclose to the side of the schooner.

I came to explore the wreck.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes...are maps...I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail

We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born of that nothing is the beginning of truth.

I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail.

We find ourselves at once in prehistory and in science fiction [ Shakespeare's Sisters .