Quotes About Discovery

I so not say that he always discovers it for himself; but I do say that when he is following someone else's example, then it is because he wishes to follow it and because that example has fostered his secret inclinations.

I do not say that he always discovers it for himself; but I do say that when he is following someone else's example, then it is because he wishes to follow it and because that example has fostered his secret inclinations.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

I blinked and looked around my tiny rented kitchen, saw things I'd never seen before: the stove leaning to the left, the handle of the fridge covered with dirty masking tape, the chipped paint of the window casing, a missing square of linoleum on the floor under the radiator. I stood and closed the notebook. I picked up the pencil and set it on top like some kind of marker, a reminder to me of something important I shouldn't lose.

But when he sat on the bed beside me, then leaned over and kissed my forehead, my cheek, my lips, his hand pressed to my rib cage, the other stroking my hair back, it was like I was an empty well and didn't know it until just now when he uncovered me and it started to rain.

She was speaking again, her voice like the chirp of a bird who has flown into a black tunnel but does not yet know it.

Je pars simplement pour partir, la surprise même est mon but - l'imprevu - Comprennez-vous?

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves

The men of my race arrive on wingless, eyeless ships.

He was circling on a leading strap

Now that difference was a cold lump within her, a lump which had grown with every moment of time since they had snapped out of hyper to enter this system. Were the old calculations really to be trusted? Was this the home planet from which her species had lifted into space at the beginning of man's climb to the stars?

The life she'd led, each of the places she'd called home sending unexpected shoots toward the next, had made her open to almost anything.

Non è che ci sarebbe voluto tutto questo tempo, ma il fatto è che quando hai sbancato i cassetti trovi una quantità di carte vecchie, scordate, alcune delle quali, quasi a forza, vogliono essere lette e tu, inevitabilmente, finisci col precipitare sempre più in fondo al gorgo della memoria e ti tornano in mente macari cose che per anni e anni hai fatto di tutto per scordare. E' un gioco tinto quello dei ricordi, nel quale finisci sempre per perdere.

It's as if every crack in the sidewalk is an open door to somewhere; you can go between the cracks to the hidden world but regular people never even see the cracks.

Someday you'll have to tell me the whole story behind you two. Maybe. But first, I have to figure it out myself.

For many years I have been tormented by the certainty that the most extraordinary discoveries await us in the sphere of time . We know less about time than about anything else

Every person who can, even at a sacrifice, make the voyage around the world should do so. All other travel compared to it seems incomplete, gives us merely vague impressions of parts of the whole.

Laketon Elementary School was in the middle of a medium-size town in the middle of New Jersey. There was a reason Dave was in the middle of his fourth hour of not talking, but this isn't the time to tell about that. This is the time to tell what he figured out in the middle of his social studies class.

Words for completely novel concepts and technical breakthroughs are devised as soon as needed, explained with ease and absorbed with scarcely an effort by all who need them. This ability to innovate in language is crucial to every scientific advance, to our intellectual curiosity, to our originality as human individuals, because it is crucial to our ability to communicate new ideas and discoveries.

The process of learning will expand your thinking, opening you to new possibilities and new ways of doing things.

Instead of answering the young man lifted up his robe, and showed the Sultan that, from the waist downwards, he was a block of black marble.

Sei come una strada buia e fredda che conduce in un luogo sconosciuto e… e io sono spaventata ma nonostante ciò, per qualche strana ragione, continuo a percorrerla. Percorrila un'ultima volta e ti accorgerai che quella strada non fa più paura.

I believe they taught me as much about the infinite capacity of things to be surprising—and a great deal about the power of beauty.