Quotes About Discovery

and Jess was looking through his spyglass. He scanned the wooded hillsides around the little

Talisman, Talisman, show me your secrets, Helmsman, Helmsman, turn me for home.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry it is the exact opposite!

And sure enough, there it was, not the sought-after needle, but, to my agreeable astonishment, the haystack in the field by the lane.

A poem is an empty house. [Stranger, you must enter, then knock.]

In a world where even the moon had been traveled, the floor of the Atlantic remained uncharted wilderness, its shipwrecks beacons for men compelled to look.

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

This is the greatest pirate story ever," Bowden said. "And no one knows about it.

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

When Albert Einstein was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, an eager young newspaper reporter approached him one day, notebook in hand. "Well, Professor Einstein," he asked, "what's new in science?" Einstein looked at him with his deep, soft eyes and replied, "Oh? Have you already written about all the old science?

The term "river voices" was coined by Frank O. Shaw when he and Richard Baldwin camped here in 1932. The men mistook the gurgling sounds made by the Dosewallips for the indistinct murmur of voices in the distance. They looked up, expecting to see a troop of Scouts coming up the trail, only to realize they had been deceived by the river.

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized Vehicles Beyond This Point." Just road...then trees.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend

Youth is wholly experimental.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

It has taken me the time since you diedto discover you are as human as I am…if I am.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?