Quotes About Discovery

476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc. etc., - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc. etc.

Have you ever thought to go away and never come back? Run away and lose your tracks, to go to a place far away and start living again, living a new life, only yours, really live? Did you ever think?

and here, in this if I always lose myself.

Hai mai pensato di andare via e non tornare mai più? Scappare e far perdere ogni tua traccia, per andare in un posto lontano e ricominiciare a vivere, vivere una vita nuova, solo tua, vivere davvero. Ci hai mai pensato?

Hai mai pensato di andare via e non tornare mai più? Scappare e far perdere ogni tua traccia, per andare in un posto lontano e ricominciare a vivere, vivere una vita nuova, solo tua, vivere davvero. Ci hai mai pensato?

Você só sabe exatamente até onde pode ir quando já foi.

I would feel deeply the elegant satisfaction of being caressed by that gawky boy, and I would take his face in both my hands and kiss him hard, as if I could draw from those lips the very strength and sweetness he did not know he had.

Humans are born to discover their own purpose, not to have some mockery of it handed to them. They are born to become magicians.

both confidence and consolation. E. O. Wilson wrote: "You start by loving a subject. Birds, probability theory, stars, differential equations, storm fronts, sign language, swallowtail butterflies.… The subject will be your lodestar and give sanctuary in the shifting mental universe.

We enter as pilgrims, as wayfarers—knowing there is something we are seeking, something nameless, beautiful, waiting, wanting. Something that will change us so thoroughly that our cozy slippers will no longer fit, that our cat will, at first, hiss upon our return, our hair tinted green with lichen, sweet root tendrils among our toes.

We don't want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.

Si caminamos lo suficiente, alguna vez llegaremos a alguna parte.

are memories pictures or the secret doorway?

To follow a wandering mind means having to get lost. Can you stand being lost?

Life is not a straight and endless stairway, the steps of which we tick off as we go smugly on, but a forest of wandering paths

Bolts of Melody, with more than six hundred unknown poems by Emily Dickinson, took the public by surprise in 1945.

Even scientific articles contributed to defining a woman's place. It wasn't just by happenstance that when Dorothy was photographed with David Bodian for Time magazine at the conference where they announced their independently made discovery, the photographer positioned Dorothy to look like she was a secretary taking dictation from Bodian. Although she'd unofficial made their discovery years before he did.

Many people are happy with things as they are. They are comfortable with what they already know. But if I didn't move outside my comfort level, how would I ever experience anything new, how would I ever learn to see or explore? I believe that each of us has a purpose for being here, that we have certain gifts and certain challenges we need to learn from and fulfill for our lives to have meaning and richness.

With hands that shook, Omri probed into the depths of the chest till he found the box-within-a-box-within-a-box.

cupboard. The strange little key, which had been his great-grandmother's

Lynne Reid Banks

That man was Aldus Manutius the Elder (1450-1515) and I will happily admit I hadn't heard of him until about a year ago, but am now absolutely kicking myself that I never volunteered to have his babies.

him and peer over the titles on

A Simple Story is one of those books which, for some reason or other, have failed to come down to us, as they deserved, along the current of time, but have drifted into a literary backwater where only the professional critic or the curious discoverer can find them out.