Quotes About Discovery

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

I love being asked to identify plants, and I don't know which gives me more pleasure: to know what they are or not to know what they are.

So," I asked again, "if mistakes provide the best opportunity for discovery and evolution, why do we go around trying to look so sure of ourselves all the time?" I invited the crowd of left-brain thinkers to put

T. S. Eliot says, "The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods Where the straight way was lost. —DANTE ALIGHIERI

Elizabeth Lesser

And the last thing to know about death is that the death of the body is the start of an adventure.

To be human is to be lost in the woods.

Some of us don't. Some of us add up all of the smaller changes into one big lesson, and find our way home as well. A

They are I-don't-know-it-alls. They are not afraid to look dumb or make mistakes. Because of that, they go places others won't and try things others don't. That is where the new discoveries are lurking. "So

logotherapy," which, in a nutshell, is about searching for the meaning packed in one's baggage, something

on the tiny counter. "Playing? If that's what you

We have, all of us, invented things that others have beat us to: walking upright, a certain sort of sandwich involving avocado and an onion roll, a minty sweet cocktail, ourselves, romantic love, human life.

They found a body in the Salford cemetery, but aboveground and alive.

So it makes sense for the tips of icebergs to fall in love, without knowing anything about the bottom parts?

The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance. Maybe my questions matter.

He shouldn't want to see her, but he did. He shouldn't want to know how she felt, how she tasted, but he did. He shouldn't want to know what food she liked or what she thought about when she was alone. He shouldn't want to know what her favorite music was or what she did when she wasn't modeling, if she did anything at all, but he did. He wanted to know everything there was to know about Razel D'Punz; the real Razel. No makeup. No costumes. No lights or camera.

You should never listen to experts, because in a few years everything they know to be 'true' will be disproven. It's how it's always been, and how it will always be. That's the power of discovery and curiosity.

she loved to stand in the middle of a market square, or a park, or a beach and take in the smells and the sounds of a world that was completely new to her. she loved being an anonymous extra in a crowd scene, like some real-life where's waldo - a tiny face, wide-eyed with wonder, in a vast, ever-changing picture.

and there you go - i was alone, without love, for eight years. and it took me about twenty minutes - over a cappuchino and an egg salad sandwich - to fall in love with him.

it was at Pompeii, nonetheless, that archaeology was born. It was to come of age in Egypt. Once

Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body...

I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.

Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared; we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerin--" "Oh, good Gad," shrieked Inspector Cuff.