Quotes About Discovery

And no sooner had Cap been commanded, if she valued her safety, not to cross the water or climb the precipice than, as a natural consequence, she began to wonder what was in the valley behind the mountain and what might be in the woods across the river. And she longed, above all things, to explore and find out for herself.

listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

He learned to read the ocean by a cupful. He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as the destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

The ends of the earth, the depths of the sea, the darkness of time, you have chosen all three.

But this is something new!' said Mrs. Munt, who collected new ideas as a squirrel collects nuts, and was especially attracted by those that are portable.

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.

I believed in a return to Nature once. But how can we return to Nature when we have never been with her? Today, I believe that we must discover Nature. After many conquests we shall attain simplicity. It is our heritage.

Anyone can find places, but the finding of people is a gift from God.

How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

Oh, hang it all! what's the good—I mean, the good of living in a room for ever? There one goes on day after day, same old game, same up and down to town, until you forget there is any other game. You ought to see once in a way what's going on outside, if it's only nothing particular after all.

Travel was a species of warfare.

The world," she thought, "is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.

But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light...

I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intangible-doing what was not contemplated by the Machine. Then I said to myself, "Man is the measure", and I went, and after many visits I found an opening.

The mystery, like so many mysteries, was explained.

El món realment és ple de coses precioses si saps com trobar-les.

Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder.

I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.