Quotes About Discovery

I'm staring at Snow White. The real Snow White. I'm in her living room.

If I told you that you had three gold bricks in your backyard, would you continue to dig until you found them? I would!

I don't know how to describe the magnificence of Carlsbad Caverns without making it sound like a cartoon or a drug trip or a cartoon of a drug trip. The only thing I can say is that it is one of those dear places that make you love the world.

on the illusive "Monsieur Hortalez." When my friend Steven and I went looking for the building one afternoon, we came to the address at 47 rue Vieille-du-Temple and realized we had been there before.

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.

To me, every plaque, no matter what words are inscribed on it, says the same magic informative thing: Something happened!

First of all, let's not forget about Cod.

And I walked across the room past all that was missing, through the door, and into the light that shone like a sweet wide smile over all that was actually there.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

In any true life you must go and be exposed outside the small circle that encompasses two or three heads in the same history of love.

Even worse is the discovery that one has been living out certain greeting-card sentiments, with ribbons of middle-class virtue tied in a bow around one's heart.

I may well be a flop at this line of endeavor. Columbus too thought he was a flop, probably, when they sent him back in chains. Which didn't prove there was no America.

With a little luck, you discover that the people in your life, permanently placed, are able to follow your innermost, deeply concealed motives.

I always suspected of him that he had in some fashion discovered that there were ways in which to be human was unutterably dismal, and that all his life was given over to avoiding those ways.

If you mine the data hard enough, you can also find messages from God. [Dogbert]

once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science. That's where we'll learn what's really unknown about being here on Earth.

Marta Stern to her father Sandy:] "Science is where the truth is in our world," she said that night in the office. "What once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science. That's where we'll learn what's really unknown about being here on Earth.

Science is where the truth is in our world,' she said that night in the office. 'What once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science.

Scott Weidensaul

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.

they walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance....

I go where the lizards tell me.