Quotes About Discovery

You spent five years in a research tub at Radio RX-1 with the Kefahuchi Tract hanging over your shoulder like a huge boiling face, stripped, raw, heaving with some emotion you couldn't recognise. It's been fun,. It's been heartbreak all the way. It's never been less than a trip.

None of us is anyone any more. We all lost who we were. But we can all be something else, and I will be so happy to fly this rocket anywhere you suggest, even though you and Irene called it Nova Swing, which is the cheapest name I ever heard.

The true detective [...] starts in the center of the maze. Crimes make their way through to him. Never forget: you uncover your heart at the heart of it.

That's how the universe keeps going, arii. It makes itself new in every generation that discovers it for the first time.

If there is road in front of me, I will follow it. I don't mind where it goes, as long as it takes me forward.

he best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.

Mas deveras estariam eles doido, e foram curados por mim, ou o que pareceu cura não foi mais do que a descoberta do perfeito desequilíbrio do cérebro?

Aos quinze anos, tudo é infinito.

Colombo não o teve maior, descobrindo a América, e perdoai a banalidade em favor do cabimento; com efeito, há em cada adolescente um mundo encoberto, um almirante e um sol de outubro.

Assim eu, Brás Cubas, descobri uma lei sublime, a lei da equivalência das janelas, e estabeleci que o modo de compensar uma janela fechada é abrir outra, a fim de que a moral possa arejar continuamente a consciência.

Pois, francamente, só agora entendia a comoção que me davam essas e outras confidências. A emoção era doce e nova, mas a causa dela fugia-me, sem que eu a buscasse nem suspeitasse.

Mankind do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Sometimes we have to be left on our own to discover the uniqueness and strength that is ours.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, This is what I believe. Finished. What I believe is alive ... and open to growth

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.

Love is the one surprise.

La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.

Wait until tomorrow to find what tomorrow holds.

A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions Una, a brilliant fifteen-year-old, a born writer who came to Harlem from Panama five years ago, and only then discovered the conflict between races, asked me, Mrs. Franklin, do you really and truly believe in God with no doubts at all? Oh, Una, I really and truly believe in God with all kinds of doubts. But I base my life on this belief.

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.