Quotes About Discovery

He was going to live with his Uncle Jonathan, whom he had never met in his life. Of course, Lewis had heard a few things about Uncle Jonathan, like that he smoked and drank and played poker. These were not such bad things in a Catholic family, but Lewis had two maiden aunts who were Baptists, and they had warned him about Jonathan.

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.

Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself.

geçmiÅŸ hiçbir zaman olduÄŸu yerde durup yeniden keÅŸfedilmeyi, ayn?yla, olduÄŸu gibi tan?nmay? beklemez. tarih her zaman belli bir ÅŸimdi'yle onun geçmiÅŸi aras?ndaki iliÅŸkiyi kurar. demek ki ÅŸimdi'den korkmak eskiyi bulandirmaya yol aç?yor. geçmiÅŸ içinde yaÅŸanacak bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily over-there it is in the water!

The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

us measure progress not by what is discovered but rather by the growing list of mysteries that remind us of how little we really know.

One of my favorites is "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.

But discoveries are what usually egg us on. Not finding anything would be very bad indeed.

The famous Canadian physician William Osler once wrote, "In science the credit goes to the man who convinced the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

In 1900, Lord Kelvin, the great British physicist, put it clearly: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.

As I walked through the wilderness of this world.

They came to the Delectable Mountains.

All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born

Today, however, she didn't go looking for urchins or broken shells. She simply walked to the end of the earth and stood a while.

What we were after there, in the horn and vellum

To find new things, take the path you took yesterday.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush.