Quotes About Discovery

She'd never known fear had a taste, but it did.

She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night.

like two children who had, for the first time, discovered someone who shared their thoughts...

I fancy there's a new one: Notes on the Tedium of Places-comprising almost everywhere.

We are the result of the universe attempting to understand itself

As Einstein said years later, talking to Sir Herbert Samuel in the grounds of Government House, Jerusalem: "If Michelson-Morley is wrong, then relativity is wrong.

I really have a nice step ladder. I never knew my real ladder.

I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going ? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

I recited and followed this song-of-the-places-in-between as a map.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest.

What freedom! Unencumbered by the obstacles that the calculating self tackles daily, the central self can listen in innocence for who we are, listen for the whole of it, inquire into what is here. The

We keep looking so hard in life for the "specific message," and yet we are blinded to the fact that the message is all around us, and within us all the time. We just have to stop demanding that it be on OUR terms or conditions, and instead open ourselves to the possibility that what we seek may be in front of us all the time.

Presence without resistance: you are now free to turn to the question, "What do we want to do from here?" Then all sorts of pathways begin to appear:

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

As they plodded along, the golden radiance intensified until it seemed to emanate from every feature of the land.

Missing only the prefix. The ex.

some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

I'm going to take you somewhere. It's time you began to see the world. You're eleven years old and it's time you saw something.

It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.

WHEN I GROW UP I'M GOING TO FIND OUT EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYBODY AND PUT IT ALL IN A BOOK. THE BOOK IS GOING TO BE CALLED SECRETS BY HARRIET M. WELSCH. I WILL ALSO HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS IN IT AND MAYBE SOME MEDICAL CHARTS IF I CAN GET THEM.

I want to know everything, everything, screeched Harriet suddenly, lying back and bouncing up and down on the bed. Everything in the world, everything, everything. I will be a spy and know everything. It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Harriet never minded admitting when she didn't know something. 'So what,' she thought, 'I can always learn.