Quotes About Discovery

Just as I opened the door from the boys' floor, I stumbled onto Mr. Farrow and that freakishly unhot witch from downstairs, Mrs. Singer. Together. Standing at the landing on the tenantless girls' floor. They were kissing, and it wasn't one of those innocent oh-hello-you-frosty-and-cadaverous-old-hag-from-downstairs-so-nice-to-see-you-this-afternoon pecks on the cheek, either.

I don't just let anyone find me, you know?

many experiments which intrigued him. He was particularly interested in the properties of light. By using a spinning colour

chemist Albert Szent-Györgyi said: "Scientific discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

However, Galileo got into trouble when he turned his telescope toward a wider horizon. The discovery of the four moons orbiting Jupiter — Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto — suggested that the Earth was not the centre of the universe about which all celestial bodies orbited. By challenging the geocentric model of the Solar System, Galileo found himself accused of heresy and was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life.

According to Carl Sagan: "Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

Scientific discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

As the great physicist John Wheeler said: "To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we finally discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another: 'Oh, how beautiful. How could it have been otherwise?

Michael Faraday demonstrated that if you push a magnet through a coil of wire, an electric current flows. Conversely, if you pass an electric current through a wire it can deflect a nearby magnetic compass. From this, Faraday deduced that electric currents create magnetic fields, and moving magnetic fields create electric currents. Thus was electromagnetism discovered, unifying electricity and magnetism.

you would expect that at the ultimate base of Nature, we will surely find a principle which is simple, beautiful, and elegant. As the great physicist John Wheeler said: "To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we finally discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another: 'Oh, how beautiful. How could it have been otherwise?

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

Travel is a very important part of anyone's growth. There's no book in the world, no podcast, no Anthony Bourdain episode that can ever replicate that life experience.

Adventure is but a collection of detours.

Since I was a very small boy, traveling from town to town, three hundred days a year, I learned to love this life. The cradlelike rock and sway of the train, the hospitality of our countrymen, the gentle hearts of our countrywomen. You will find that, as long as you keep moving, there is no end to the delights awaiting you. But you must keep moving, Feliu. Even when the heart skips; even when the view blurs.

New things have to be tried. How do you know otherwise if something's good if you don't try it?

One can show off one's courage, but when it finally turns out that the danger is not real danger, you can laugh happily and say, "I said there's nothing terrible here; you'll even like it here. Haven't we shown you interesting things?

It was a ceremonial supper. For they were going to part in the morning. In the morning each of them was going to go their own way; in search of something they already had. But they did not know they had it, they could not even imagine it. They could not imagine where the roads they were meant to set off on the next morning would lead. Each of them travelling separately.

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into.

Hej! - rycza? Yarpen Zigrin siedz?cy na ko?le, wskazuj?c na Yennefer. - Co? si? tam czerni na szlaku! Ciekawe, co to? Wygl?da jak koby?a! - Bez ochyby! - odwrzasn?? Jaskier, odsuwaj?c na ty? g?owy ?liwkowy kapelusik. - To koby?a! Wierzchem na wa?achu! Niebywa?e!

The unicorn discovered several clumps of yellowed thistles and ate them with relish. This time Ciri did not join him. But when Little Horse found some lizard's eggs in the sand, she ate and he watched her.

train of surprises

Id? przez ogieÅ" i wodÄ™, nie ustawaj , wstecz siÄ™ nie oglÄ…daj. A gdy ju? zedrÄ… siÄ™ chodaki, gdy zetrze siÄ™ kostur ?elazny, gdy ju? od wiatru i ?alu wyschnÄ… twe oczy tak, ?e ju? ni jedna Å'za z nich wypÅ'yn?? nie zdoÅ'a, wówczas na koÅ"cu Å›wiata odnajdziesz to, czego szukasz i to, co kochasz. By? mo?e.

PÃ…â"¢istoupil jsem blíž a na desce vidím nápis. Dost kostrbatý. Znal jsem kdysi lu?iÅ¡tníka, který dovedl do snÄ›hu vymo?it hez?í runy.

We shan't know,' Cahir chipped in, 'until we find out.