Quotes About Discovery

Thousands of miles,' I said. It's Rhosilli, USA. We're going to camp on a bit of rock that wobbles in the winds.

Speak, then, o body, shout aloud, And break my only mind from chains To go where ploughing's ended.

I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books, such sandstorms and ice blasts of words, such slashing of humbug, and humbug too, such staggering peace, such enormous laughter, such and so many blinding bright lights breaking across the just-waking wits and splashing all over the pages in a million bits and pieces all of which were words, words, words, and each of which were alive forever in its own delight and glory and oddity and light.

Most of what our students need to know hasn't been discovered or invented yet. "Learning how to learn" used to be an optional extra in education; today, it's a survival skill.

Driven by the hunger for fame and originality, we are like these monkeys, thinking that we are so clever in discovering things and convincing our fellow humans to see what we see, think what we think, driven by ambition to be the savior, the clever one, the seer of all. We have all kinds of small ambitions, such as impressing a girl, or big ambitions, such as landing on Mars. And

I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia

Every answer asks a more beautiful question

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.

Aha!" He said. "You've found it?" Fia gasped. Larna looked up so fast she nearly dropped her book. "No." He tapped his finger on a rune. "But this rune matches, here." "Oh, goodness." Larna's sturdy frame seemed to droop a little. "Yes, it does." He passed the magnifying glass over the two texts. "Hmm… hmm. Yes, yes indeed. This word is definitely 'the'.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

Every curve of his face was familiar, and also, I had never seen him before.

We had been in the attic before. Also, we had never been in the attic before.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Leave the atom alone.

The world is not a prison house; it is a spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell G-O-D wih the wrong blocks.

Love doesn't work that way. You don't meet one day and kiss and see sparkles the next. Real love takes time. They need to get to know each other, and when they do, then they might fall in love. They know next to nothing about each other now.