Quotes About Discovery

Electron microscopes let us wander the remote universe of our own cells.

Experiments are not about discovery but about listening and translating the knowledge of other beings.

A compass: "To find your new path.

This is our work, to discover what we can give. Isn't this the purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?

What lies beyond our grasp remains unnamed.

Our mental maps had all the landmarks we kids needed:

Like the young of every species they escape the restrictions of their elders and seek out the freedom of the wide-open spaces.

Until meeting you, I wasn't looking for anything at all. Since meeting you, I'm kind of looking for a girlfriend.

to transfer her rage after all. She wanted David Price dead. And then, for the first time, she truly understood Griffin. And then, for the first time, she had an inkling of an idea. The front door opened and shut. Laurie, who had gone out to get the mail, walked into the family room, sifting through the pile. She came

wish I had an answer for her. Something simple like Because, or poignant, such as Every child deserves to be found, or defiant, like Why not? But the truth is, she's probably heard it all by now. A whole torrent of words and reasons. Instead of being given the one thing she wants most: answers.

A girl becomes a comma like that, with wrong boy after wrong boy; she becomes a pause, something quick before the real thing.

Good. Slowly, nerves as tight as bowstrings, she swept the weakening beam across the floor. Heart racing, ready to bolt, she tried to convince herself there was no one in the vault, no one but her and her own pounding pulse. She was wrong. A skeleton lay stretched upon a slab—a woman, she guessed, from its small size and the rotting nightgown and dark clumps of hair. "Oh, dear God." The corpse had been here a while—teeth

can you imagine paying for a place for your split personality? Makes you wonder how much she really knew about herself.

His only lead was Ginny Slade, aka Virginia Watson Slade, and he'd have to track her down, but it wouldn't be easy. It would take time and money. Lots and lots of Danvers money.

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In the kitchen, Ava found the coffeepot

I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.

You shouldn't walk away from something that intrigues you

You think you're in Connecticut, but you're in the jungle.

The room? Why am I not surprised?

Maybe our lives are like gigantic jigsaw puzzles. You find the right piece and suddenly the whole picture has meaning.

What's your first impression of a new place? Is it the first meal you eat? Your first ice cream cone? The first person you meet? The first night you spend in your new bed in your new home? The first broken promise?

someone recommended that I watch Somewhere Between, a powerful documentary about teenage adoptees, one of whom goes to China and finds her birth mother.

Ralph Waldo Emerson thought of weeds as plants "whose virtues had not yet been discovered.