Quotes About Discovery

The most remarkable leaps into the unknown are often not fully appreciated

Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.

Curiosity-driven research may seem self-indulgent and far from the immediate public good. However, essentially all of our current quality of life, for people living in the first world, has arisen from the fruits of such research, including all the electric power that drives almost every device we use. Two

escape the shackles of our prior experience to uncover profound and beautiful simplifications and predictions

Henry explained his experiment on the submarine, using the variolation procedure.

The world has forgotten that there is more pleasure in wondering than knowing.

I'd lost something I never knew I'd had.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

Either way Reacher figured he might as well find out. He had no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so detours cost him nothing.

We crossed the Avenue Bosquet against the light and then we made an arbitrary left into the Rue Jean Nicot. Joe stopped at a tabac and bought cigarettes. I would have smiled if I had been able to. The street was named after the guy who discovered nicotine.

Reacher said, What have we missed ? Ratcliffe said, A piece of the puzzle. What do you know about computers ? I saw one once.

Reacher remembered a line from an old song: Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

the meandering approach road. She saw the

Route 66. She headed north and east on it. Reacher started singing to himself, about getting his kicks. Then he stopped. Berenson

I sat there in the armchair and felt bad. I'd lost something I never knew I'd had.

North Carolina Badlands

saw Spivey.

The town explained itself to him, gradually, street by street.

He saw the same kind of things, and began to understand them. The town explained itself to him, gradually, street by street.

identified, and

that. There were some turns left and right, and there were some small stands of trees here and there, and there were

18. Nunca vuelvas atrás

I wanted miles to travel and absolutely no idea where I was going.

Nothing is ever over, nothing is ever ended, and worlds open up within the world we know.