Quotes About Discovery

We have assumed that ancient houses were built like those of today – as weatherproof boxes for living in and raising families. So we have been very anxious to work out where people ate, slept and prepared their meals. It's all about what happened where – and we have discovered a great deal. But revealing where people slept or prepared their food makes little sense if we don't also try to appreciate what it was that motivated them to get out of bed every morning.

the rich smells would soon get them digging with their front feet and the well-defined hearths seen in the excavation trenches would rapidly be disturbed beyond recognition.

Alice of Wonderland was stranded on Earth.

I, an unnaturally large caterpillar, will reveal to you that of yourself which yet you know not

Buku adalah benda luar biasa. Buku itu seperti taman indah penuh dengan bunga aneka-warna, seperti permadani terbang yang sanggup melayangkan kita ke negeri-negeri tak dikenal sebelumnya.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

To know a thing well, know its limits; Only when pushed beyond its tolerance will its true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say Look! I have no hands! But the people all around me say: What are hands?

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on. How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom, Leto said.

The universe is full of doors.

One of the most terrible moments in a boy's life," Paul said, "is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It's a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can't evade it. I heard my father when he spoke of my mother. She's not the betrayer, Gurney.

The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for!

Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode!

For a moment, the sensation of coolness and the moisture were blessed relief. Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.

Ve?ina ljudi nije dovoljno jaka za pronalaženje slobode u sebi.

What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.

it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even

Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked.