Quotes About Discovery

There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

Meg took a batch of forks from the drawer and turned them over and over, looking at them. "I'm all confused again." "Oh, so 'm I," Calvin said gaily. "But now at least I know we're going somewhere.

The important thing is to recognize that our gift, no matter what the size, is indeed something given us, for which we can take no credit, but which we may humbly serve, and, in serving, learn more wholeness, be offered wondrous newness. Picasso says that an artist paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

When I think of the children's books I love best, I realize that they're written on a great many different levels. Now the first level is story. A good children's book must hold the reader's interest. It must be first and foremost a good story that will make the reader keep wanting to go on turning the pages. But underneath that good story is buried treasure. No one person will find all of the treasure, but each will discover special joys.

cow. It finished opera for me for years.

I have learned that I love. Love. That is a good word.

Sextus [Empericus] identifies three different types of philosophy. There are Dogmatists, who think that they know the truth. There are Academic Sceptics, who think the truth can never be known. Then there are Sceptics, who retain an open mind, not thinking truth is yet discovered, but prepared to accept that it might be.

She told them to read a poem every day and think about it, and whenever they went to a new place, to find out about its history and what had made it the place it had become.

She was still vaguely hopeful that there was love out there somewhere—just a little less sure that she might actually find it.

Turning, she unlocked the next door and went through it to the larger part of the

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

I want to say that wonderful ideas can come from anywhere. Sometimes you make a mistake, or break something, or lose a hat, and the next thing you know, you get a great idea.

Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world for evidence of extraordinary wealth, and almost 20 percent of the names they end up with come from

starts to think out loud. It's obvious she's on the verge of figuring something out. "Well, I knew this, though… but… I knew that. For each one up, it goes that many over. I'm still somewhat confused as

What Wolf began to realize was that

Number four was that Gates just happened to find out about ISI, and ISI just happened to need someone to work on its payroll software.

when explorers began traveling across oceans and undertaking bold expeditions in previously unknown territory, an entirely new kind of encounter emerged. Cortés and Montezuma wanted to have a conversation, even though they knew nothing about the other. When

But it is an advance that has nothing to do with taking more pictures, or taking better pictures. It has to do with going beyond the picture.

does not believe that consumers — even spaghetti lovers — know what they desire if what they desire does not yet exist.

contraption that you could assemble at home. The headline on the story read: "PROJECT BREAKTHROUGH! World's

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from...

One of the benefits of success with new songs is that some of the other songs will get a chance to see the light of day whereas they wouldn't have before.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that don't work.