Quotes About Discovery

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

People lose their way as an act of defence. Then they panic and decide they have to find it again.

In seeking understanding, I am seeking for meaning.

This century has been so rich in discovery and so packed with technical innovation that it is tempting to believe that there can never be another like it. That conceit betrays the poverty of our collective imagination.

artists know to look deeper than just surface beauty. They dig for what's underneath the underneath

Because the arts are not about what you can just see or sense; they're about discovering what underlies it all—

I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

A time of open scientific and technical experimentation, the period 1963 to 1969 was considered the "golden years" of AI.

If you kept on spiraling you would eventually discover, as the Chinese did long ago, that 53 perfect fifths (or Lu) almost exactly equal 31 octaves. The first five fifths produce the pattern of the black notes on a piano, the Eastern pentatonic scale.

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads forth.

Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find No highway more, no track, all being blind, The way to go shall glimmer in the mind. Though you have conquered Earth and Charted Sea And planned the courses of all Stars that be, Adventure on, more wonders are in Thee. Adventure on, for from the littlest clue Has come whatever worth man ever knew; The next to lighten all men may be you . . .

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

He regarded the universe as a cryptogram set by the Almighty - just as he himself wrapt the discovery of the calculus in a cryptogram when he communicated with Leibniz.

There's a very interesting thing that Scott Fitzgerald said [about creating characters], 'If you start with a person, you end up with a type, but if you start with a type you wind up with nothing.' You set out to discover something in your writing and it is through the attempt to discover that you reflect. If you have your mind made up about something you'll reflect nothing.

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

I'm addicted to the entire planet. I don't want to leave it. I want to get down into it. I want to say hello. On the beach, I could have stopped all day long and looked at those damned shells, looked for all the messages that come not in bottles but in shells...

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

One of the best feelings in the world was finding something you were sure you'd lost forever.

How is it we don't create new words when we see something that astonishes us? Why don't we make up new words for the things that make us feel new?

We're all just trying to find our way

Maia's greatest desire when she grows up is to be interesting as well. She knows that to become interesting, she must read, travel, and learn new things.

It was just a movie, but what you learned when you lived on an island was, you never knew.