Quotes About Discovery

true story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.

If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . .

Remember: the journey is the destination.

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

The goal of science is to make the wonderful and complex understandable and simple—but not less wonderful. —Herb Simon, Sciences of the Artificial

Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause. . . . It's an illusion of the human mind, a way of saying, 'I don't know why this happened this way, and I have no intention of finding out.

Sometimes what you're looking for is right under your nose and you don't even know it.

bereft. I leave this letter in hopes you'll discover it when you

Convergence assumes that scientific discoveries matter to faith.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

At that moment, though, she stood there on stage, perched atop a pair of ruby-red heels, looking less like Eliza Doolittle than Dorothy; the girl swept up in the cyclone, lifted out of her black-and-white world and deposited in a Technicolor Oz.

Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go.

The Army was good for me. I can't honestly say that it taught me any morals or sense of responsibility. I had been raised with those qualities. What it taught me was that there was a whole world of sex I had yet to discover.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey;

Isaac looked for a grand patter to the Universe. He spent long periods lost in thought. Then suddenly he dashed off several pages without pausing.

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

My life is a reading list.

You don't read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

This pattern of balancing between comfort and exploration of the unknown is how we build our brains

was oxytocin and, especially in the male, vasopressin. These are two closely related biochemicals, technically neuropeptides (brain chemicals). This discovery alone ratchets up the relevance of the finding to the human condition: oxytocin is the most common gene-generated molecule in the human brain. In voles, it is the transformative switch. And not just in prairie voles, it turns

He and Marie wandered through a square