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Quotes About Discovery

A universe of surprises is what I pray for
~ Frank Herbert
There is a fifth force which shaped religious belief, but its effect is so universal and profound that it deserves to stand alone. This is, of course, space travel—and in any discussion of religion, it deserves to be written thus: SPACE TRAVEL!
~ Frank Herbert
We are one life reaching out into a dark future.
~ Frank Herbert
Thus did he break through Tim's veils
~ Frank Herbert
Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a background which He already knew.
~ Frank Herbert
Halleck murmured: "'For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of the treasure hid in the sand.
~ Frank Herbert
Next time we meet it'll be on the soil of your new world.
~ Frank Herbert
The water searched through rolling hills
~ Frank Herbert
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.
~ Frank Herbert
We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance?
~ Frank Herbert
What was it the pilgrims sought? Paul wondered. They said they came to a holy place. But they must know the universe contained no Eden source, no Tupile for the soul. They called Arrakis the place of the unknown where all mysteries were explained. This was a link between their universe and the next. And the frightening thing was that they appeared to go away satisfied…. What do they find here? Paul asked himself. (Dune Messiah Page 82)
~ Frank Herbert
There had been so many things to learn. Arrakis would be a place so different from Caladan that Paul's mind whirled with the new knowledge. Arrakis—Dune—Desert Planet.
~ Frank Herbert
More than one government has fallen because people discovered the real extent of official wealth.
~ Frank Herbert
A maior parte das vidas é uma fuga da essência de cada um.
~ Frank Herbert
Somos uma sonda perscrutando o desconhecido, investigando a incerteza.
~ Frank Herbert
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlight enment than the one in which you discover your father is a man with human flesh.
~ Frank Herbert
Chaque route que l'on suit exactement jusqu'au bout ne conduit exactement à rien. Escaladez la montagne pour voir si c'est bien une montagne. Quand vous serez au sommet de la montagne, vous ne pourrez plus voir la montagne.
~ Frank Herbert
Yes, it was a matter of opening doors, he thought. You opened one door and that let you into a place where there were other doors. You chose a door in this new place and examined what that revealed to you. There might be times when you were forced to try all of the doors but the more doors you opened, the more certain you became of which door to open next. Finally, a door would open into a place you recognized. Then you could say: Ahhhh, this explains everything.
~ Frank Herbert
Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.
~ Frank Herbert
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there staring out at you!
~ Frank Herbert
Ove Malkyjeve rije?i, kao i mnoge druge stvari koje mi je izravno pisao, navode na zaklju?ak da je gospodar Leto uvijek u potrazi za novinom i izvornoš?u, ali je i oprezan zbog razorne mo?i skrivene u takvim stvarima.
~ Frank Herbert
Name is Maria—Miranda—Macapa. Then, after a pause, she added, as though she had but that moment thought of it, Had a flying squirrel an' let him go.
~ Frank Norris
I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.
~ Frank O'Connor
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~ Frank Tallis