Quotes About Discovery

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

I feel like my story just proves how important not only social media is, but how important it is to be your authentic self. Because when you're really truly your authentic self, the right people will find you. And when they find you, it will be for exactly who you are.

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

Leave no stone unturned.

What's strange in that? Have you only just discovered That everyone loves himself more than his neighbor?

It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.

They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good.

Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.

For too long I had existed, not really going anywhere and not standing still. I just lived, always in search of something that seemed just out of my range of vision.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying I must read that, too, when I've the time, replace it and continue the search.

She was daily surprised by the things he knew and the things he did not know; both, at the time, added to his attraction.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year.

a necklace of pearls on a white neck. We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year. I began to settle down. ... the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten; a world of its own of peace and love and beauty...

What is adolescence without trash?

How could I have known? There seemed time for everything in those days; the world was open to be explored at leisure.

there is always more to be learned and noticed, so many characters, so many changes of scene, so many words...

Next morning at first light to Guy's surprise the troopship at last emerged from the haze of myth and was seen to be solidly at anchor beyond the mouth of the harbor.

But how do you know He *doesn't* want us to have it—the cross, I mean? I bet He's just waiting for one of us to go and find it—just at this moment when it's most needed. Just at this moment when everyone is forgetting it and chattering about the hypostatic union, there's a solid chunk of wood waiting for them to have their silly heads knocked against. I'm going off to find it

He was like a friend made on board ship, on the high seas; now we had come to his home port.

Amory selected a blade of grass and nibbled at it scientifically.

But the army - let me see - well, I discovered that physical courage depends to a great extent on the physical shape a man is in. I found that I was as brave as the next man - it used to worry me before.