Quotes About Discovery

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

Arikawa is the scientist who discovered that butterflies have color vision, and that their tiny brains contain sophisticated visual systems. He also discovered that butterflies have eyes on their genitals.

One, Western culture has cut itself off from the serpent /life principle, in other words DNA, since it adopted an exclusively rational point of view. Two, the peoples who practice what we call 'shamanism' communicate with DNA. Three, paradoxically, the part of humanity that cut itself off from the serpent managed to discover its material existence in a laboratory some three thousand years later.

If I (Lou Reed) hadn't heard rock 'n' roll on the radio, I would have had no idea there was life on this planet. You know what I'm saying? Which would have been devastating - to think that everything everywhere was like it was where I came from. That would have been profoundly discouraging.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

She ran her hands across the bark, imagining herself at the foot of some planet-traversing colossus who was standing still to allow her up for a visit.

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

Discovery is the ability to see what everybody else has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.

A book is an experiment, and as with all experiments, there is a sense of uncertainty about how it will turn out.

Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.

Physicists had only recently discovered radioactivity,

It is more than just knowing facts about God. It is coming into a deeper personal relationship with Him as a result of seeking Him in the midst of our personal pain and discovering Him to be trustworthy.

When we discover we are weak in ourselves, we find we are strong in Christ.

In this game, mistakes and errors are good. They help us uncover new relationships.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.

You are always learning. At the end of each day, you know something you didn't know at the beginning. We're all learning on the job. This is true even when the thing you've learned is that you know less than you thought.

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

I let the fireflies lead the way, dancing just ahead of me, sparkling as I passed and then dimming to nothing.

Life's a shock to the young. Shock to have an old man for a father instead of an angel. Shock to eat ham gravy instead of dew drops. And to like ham gravy. That's the worst shock of all. Find yourself fitting into this sorry world.

First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.