Quotes About Discovery

Man lives, you're right! Whoever seeks further is already lost.

C'est vraiment honteux d'aller et venir sur la terre et de ne presque rien savoir d'elle... Pas même quelques noms.

Fue entonces cuando la terrorífica verdad empezó a imponèrseme -¡Jenny, estamos legalmente casados! -Si, ahora ya puedo comportarme como una perra

Stephen Gray to devise an experiment that for sheer inventive panache outstripped anything that had come before. He clothed a boy in heavy garments until his body was thoroughly insulated but left the boy's hands, head, and feet naked. Using nonconducting silk strings, he hung the boy in the air, then touched an electrified glass tube to his naked foot, thus causing a spark to rocket from his nose.

when you look at the past through a fresh lens, you invariably see the world differently and find new material and insights even along well-trodden paths.

My travels took me as far north as Thorsminde, Denmark (in February no less); as far south as Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia; as far west as the Hoover Library at Stanford University; and to various points east, including the always amazing Library of Congress and the U.S. National Archives, and equally enticing archives in London, Liverpool, and Cambridge.

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. J. M. Barrie "Dedication" Peter Pan 1904

They tasted a new snack called Cracker Jack and a new breakfast food called Shredded Wheat.

Churchill was unusually crabby. "Too little sleep made the P.M. irritable all morning," Colville wrote. By lunch, he was "morose." The proximate cause had nothing to do with the war or Roosevelt but, rather, with his discovery that Clementine had used his treasured honey, sent to him from Queensland, Australia, for the frivolous objective of sweetening rhubarb.

the station.

With that as my guiding question, I set out on what became a lengthy journey through the vast and tangled forest of Churchill scholarship, a realm of giant volumes, distorted facts, and bizarre conspiracy theories, to try to find my personal Churchill. As I've discovered with prior books, when you look at the past through a fresh lens, you invariably see the world differently and find new material and insights even along well-trodden paths.

Isn't a bookshop, to some extent, a temple to Browsing?

Who do you become when you've lost sight of who you are but the false you isn't one you can pretend to be anymore?

I'd never seen a penis in person and I was curious

Pulling his weight back off of her, he nodded over his shoulder. "Show me what's in the bedroom." Though her body leapt in expectation, she tried to play it cool. "Oh, just a dresser, a TV, a dead stuffed deer, and, oh, yeah, a bed." "Forget the deer. Show me how the bed works.

because I figured out who I was- the man who had been born to love you.

a colorless chap who's never found himself because there isn't anything to find.

Very few of us ever find our authentic talent—usually it is found for us, as we stumble into a way of life that society rewards us for.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

My big fish must be somewhere.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.