Quotes About Discovery

He was still telling himself to calm down, patting his pockets for a Tootsie Pop—something he hadn't done all week—when he went into the closet and found Goldilocks surrounded by piles of his clothes and possessions, each pile organized and labeled with handwritten descriptions.

Without an engine, Beebe's bathysphere dangled helplessly from the topside support ship like a ball of yarn suspended from knitting needles.

Marine biology is not a science for the faint of heart." - KRAKEN The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid (2011)

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot

It is only through writing that I become myself

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I am doing.

And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there [space]. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Fish don't fly, birds don't swim, find out what you're capable of, before you want to be.

Going far without moving.

The key to the cage is in your wings."

You will never find a new place by following the trail of others.

we are going to enter a new world.

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

On that day, the library was transformed from a confusing and intimidating collection of books into a thousand different portals through time and space to fantastic worlds for me to explore.*

But there was something else that I discovered in Madrid. It had more to do with the spirit than it did with knowledge and yet it was something I could hope to hand on. A change in method or technique accounts for many things in human history.

?nsan?n önemli anlarda dilsizle?en bir filozof oldu?unu ke?fetmesinden daha korkunç bir ?ey olamaz.

You did not know, Little Man, what a library is for.

Buna göre insan olman?n anlam?, insan olman?n bütün imkanlar?n? denemekte yat?yor olabilir.

Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.