Quotes About Discovery

All that day he travelled, laying his course by the rounding sun. The forest seemed interminable; nowhere did he discover a break in it, not even a woodman's road. He had not known that he lived in so wild a region. There was something uncanny in the revelation.

Observatory n, A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

As we run, we become.

Close your eyes and get some rest. We gain new worlds when we sleep. —The Grimoire of Eleanor St. Clair

People like the feeling they get when they think they've stumbled upon something miraculous. It's a proven fact.

Let that be a lesson to you," her mother had said, wagging her finger at her daughter. "Those who use magic to find what they seek may not always like what they find.

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.

Is it not amazing, Puggly dear, that whenever we begin to congratulate ourselves on the breadth of our knowledge of the world, we discover that there are multitudes of people, in every corner of the earth, who have seen vastly more than we can ever hope to?

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but

The ones you like straight away rarely turn out to be your favourites.

He was not sure what he had been expecting. Outstanding beauty, or stunning grace, or something that struck him instantly to the heart. But Ankran's family were an ordinary-looking pair. Most people are, of course, to those that don't know them.

Body found floating by the docks . . .

Az elmúlt nyarak szeretik a társaságot. Ahányszor csak megfordul az ember, mindig többet talál a háta mögött.

Maldita ciencia. Es aún peor que la magia". - Caul Escalofríos

los grandes viajes empiezan con pasos pequeños.

Man found floating by the docks" - San Dan Glokta

Joe Clifford Faust

We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion.

if you focus on the known, you get the known. If you focus on the unknown, you create a possibility.

They came up with that number because genes manufacture (and supervise the production of) proteins—and the human body manufactures 100,000 different proteins, plus 40,000 regulatory proteins needed to make other proteins. So the scientists mapping the human genome were anticipating that they'd find one gene per protein, but by the end of the project, in 2003, they were shocked to discover that, in fact, humans have only 23,688 genes. From

For now, it's enough to keep in mind that if your goal is to effect change and you haven't been able to make it happen with all your external-world resources, then clearly you'll need to look outside the limits of what you see, sense, and experience for your answers. You'll need to pull from other sources you haven't yet identified—from the unknown. So in that sense, the unknown is your friend, not your foe. It's the place where the answer lies.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That's just the deal.