Quotes About Discovery

I'd like to go to Africa, away from water, away from what's normal for us. When you put yourself in those places your life looks so far away. It makes a big impact.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

This approach was typical of the Industrial Age: inadvertently removing something essential for human health, discovering it was essential for human health—and then developing an industrial method to add it back in.

Each abductee discovers that he or she is but one intelligent being in a universe populated with various other entities that are not "supposed to" exist.

Nothing in my work on UFO abductions has surprised me as much as the discovery that what is happening to the earth has not gone unnoticed elsewhere in the universe.

What we have yet to discover, and it is probably beyond our mental horizons to do so at this time, is how emotional phenomena can stimulate physiologic ones. That they do is unquestionable, but for the time being, we may have to be content with Benjamin Franklin's observation: "Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her Laws: tis enough to know the Laws themselves.

Louis C. Whiton in the August–September 1971 issue of Natural History magazine titled "Under the Power of the Gran Gadu" (Vol. 80, No. 7). Dr. Whiton had been conducting anthropological

When we discover and build upon our gifts it spurs positive feelings in us and those around us, and those feelings go a long way toward dissipating the burden of failure that many young Aspergians carry as kids.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey . . . something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.

Each time we explore Bach's music we feel as if we have traveled great distances to, and through, a remote but entrancing soundscape

We choose to go to the moon.

Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

You're not built for riding, either," Horace added. "I'd say more saddle sore than homesick." Svenal sighed ruefully, shifting his buttocks for the twentieth time to find a more comfortable spot. "It's true," he said. "I've been discovering parts of my backside I never knew existed.

It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe.

Which leaves us to the question, what is he up to?" Evanlyn said. Will shrugged. "I suppose we'll find out soon enough," he said, and urged Tug forward to take up the point position once more. They found out the following evening.

A foolish way to get around." Hal smiled. "If the gods had meant us to ride horses, they never would have given us ships.

What have you packed for? A twelve-month grand tour around the country?

Maybe we'll catch a dragon in a tadpole net.

Better to suspect something and find nothing than to suspect nothing and find something.

Hij had nooit geweten dat Trek zó snel kon lopen.