Quotes About Discovery

I knew that no matter how confusing things get, how many voices are shouting lies, how many wrong turns you take, how many dead ends you run into, there is always, always the truth to find, always the truth somewhere, burning, shining.

To escape from the little island of the living.

That was the trouble with searching for the truth. It wasn't always pleasant. It wasn't always something you wanted to find.

So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.

Andrew Martin

To find, you have to seek. If you have lost your life direction, you probably won't find it between drinks at the local bar. Give yourself a break some time and space to examine what counts for you.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it. A skeleton in a museum or a drop of blood

one of the gifts of science: when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective.

Just keep in mind, it was aware of us long before we were aware of it.

Sometimes serendipity must be seduced.

All of the technology described in this book is either currently being tested on the launch pad or in advance stages of development. This is a story of the very near future.

If I were looking for a bacterium that could eat oil, I'd be collecting samples of dirt from the middle of busy freeways. I don't know if I'd find one, but I'm sure I'd discover something interesting.

when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective

you want to get as close to the data as you can get, because it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

Richard Feynman would say, "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

A scientist is someone trying to see order in chaos.

the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. arthur c. clark

because it's the questions you don't know to ask

it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

Book shelves were on the right-hand wall and a framed print of Christina's World on the left. 'Mr Saunders found that picture in a closet and thought it might be something you'd like.' 'It was always in here,' I said, looking at it. I had often stared at it and wondered about the woman in the picture and how much like her I often felt. 'I do like it. I like it very much.

Though it's with you at every moment, it's always something of a surprise to discover that you can be at once alive and alone.

The first time you meet Winston you see all his faults,' she told him, 'and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

Mages, unsurprisingly, loved researching new and exciting ways to explode things just as much as anyone else. I

You are not supposed to be here." Mizuchi turned her head from side to side, searching.