Quotes About Discovery

Robert Galbraith

She'd spent nearly half her life with Matthew, and not until a hard, bright diamond ear stud had appeared in their bed had she realized that he was living a life apart, and was not, and perhaps never had been, the man she thought she knew.

If you spot anything, or you think of anything I haven't, tell me, won't you?" This was rather thrilling: Robin prided herself on her observational powers; they were one reason she had secretly cherished the childhood ambition that the large man beside her was living.

He pointed a finger at the sky. 'What?' said Robin, looking up into the blue haze. 'If you look carefully,' said Strike, 'you might just see an asteroid passing through the house of bollocks.

You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the

Sweet is the swamp with its secrets, Until we meet a snake… Emily Dickinson XIX: A Snake

Robert Galbraith

But perhaps revelation often comes when you're not looking for it, resolution when you don't realize you need it.

to be found?' 'You're suggesting

Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.

Laughable error and profound discovery are born of the same freedom.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, "How did I do it?" The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

Some asked how pearls did grow, and where?Then spoke I to my girlTo part her lips, and showed them thereThe quarelets of pearl.

Third Doctor: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting

transports (and lost only three of the

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

Einstein said, "A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. —Thomas Edison

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."23

During the early stages of a project, don't study how the task has been approached in the company, industry, field, or region where you are working.

to find a few ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't.

Electric light, the first reliable internal combustion engine, and wireless transmission were all invented within the same three-month period at the end of 1879. Within

He said to them, "Come and see . . ." – John 1:39

Scientists aren't responsible for the facts that are in nature. It's their job to find the facts. There's no sin connected with it—no morals. If anyone should have a sense of sin, it's God. He put the facts there. —Percy Bridgman