Quotes About Discovery

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realization and then a little realization built on that.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

I tako, kad se ve? ?inilo da imam cijelu ku?u na raspolaganju, odlu?ih se vratiti u knjižnicu i vidjeti što mogu otkriti. Osim toga, volim knjižnice. Osje?am se ugodno i sigurno okružen sa svih strana zidovima od rije?i, predivnih i mudrih. Uvijek se osje?am bolje kad mogu vidjeti da postoji nešto što rastjeruje tamu.

We followed it to the right until it turned left.

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown.

Fiona and Brand had reached beyond everything and found something, where none of the rest of us had believed anything to exist. The danger released was, on some level, almost worth the evidence obtained: we were not alone, nor were shadows truly our toys.

I had been wandering, looking for something novel, something that suited my fancy. I came upon that place at that time in the same way we find anything. I let my desires lead me and I followed my instincts.

There were obviously missing pieces to the puzzle, but I felt as if they were minor, as if the smallest bit of new information and the slightest jiggling of the pattern would suddenly cause everything to fall into place, with the emerging picture to be something I should have seen all along.

You know how subtle Brand can be, finding out things without seeming to be after them.

In those days, continued Ishvar, it seemed to me that that was all one could expect in life. A harsh road strewn with sharp stones and, if you were lucky, a little grain. And later? Later I discovered there were different types of roads. And a different way of walking on each.

The answers were not easy to come by, they lay in the garden of the past, which memory had dug up and replanted in plots of its own choosing.

Every exploration is an appropriation.

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.

Though each love is experienced as unique and though the subject rejects the notion of repeating it elsewhere later on, he sometimes discovers in himself a kind of diffusion of amorous desire; he then realises he is doomed to wander until he dies, from love

Who knows? Maybe something valuable in these notes?

Men, as Amundsen liked to say, are the unknown factor in the Antarctic.

Vagabonding is an attitude—a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word. Vagabonding is not a lifestyle, nor is it a trend. It's just an uncommon way of looking at life—a value adjustment from which action naturally follows. And, as much as anything, vagabonding is about time—our only real commodity—and how we choose to use it.

After all, vagabonding involves sacrifices, and its particular sacrifices are not for everyone.

It was symptomatic of Jack's humility and his insecurity that when he made an exciting discovery in his laboratory, he chalked it off it to luck.

Rockefeller eventually realized that medical research ideally suited his needs.

This wasn't someone I had encountered in any biography.

Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place.

When you're a theorist, the two most addictive states to be in are excited and confused

Andromeda was discovered to be another island universe, another spiral galaxy almost identical to our own, and one of the more than 100 billion other galaxies that, we now know, exist in our observable universe.