Quotes About Discovery

Quisiera no saber ahora lo que no sabía entonces.

Por grandes y profundos que sean los conocimientos de un hombre, el día menos pensado encuentra en el libro que menos valga a sus ojos, alguna frase que le enseña algo que ignora

Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

Place is not the background of archaeology—it's the point. As any archaeologist will tell you, context is everything.

It seems as though the conclusions are never as interesting as the questions. I mean, they're not what you remember.

Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise.

There are pleasures to be found where you would never look for them

It is all still new to me. I have lived my life on the prairie and a line of oak trees can still astonish me.

Touch a limit of your understanding and it falls away, to reveal mystery upon mystery.

Everything always bears looking into, astonishing as that fact is.

I talked once with a cabdriver who had spent years in prison. He said he had no idea that the world was something he could be interested in. And then he read a book.

My father said, "I would never have thought this place could be beautiful. I'm glad to know that.

To me, going to the unknown is absolutely rule number one.

Kelion?se išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti.

The forest is where you are when your surroundings are not mastered.

Curiosity is the beginning and end of secrets.

Galileo established what has since become the modern approach to the study of all natural phenomena.

And yet, my dear Estela, in the end one accepts the will of God, resigns oneself, and discovers that, even with all its calvaries, life is full of beautiful things.

Allá, en el Congo, conviviendo con la injusticia y la violencia, había descubierto la gran mentira que era el colonialismo y había empezado a sentirse un 'irlandés', es decir, ciudadano de un país ocupado y explotado por un Imperio que había desngrado y desalmado a Irlanda

que culminarían en el dogma de la experimentación como único camino para el descubrimiento de la verdad.

Lo que guardo en la memoria de esos años son los autores que descubrí, los libros queridos que leí con esa voracidad con que uno se envicia de literatura a los dieciocho años!

If you're in a country and you want to learn about it, it's a good idea to go and found out what they have to say for themselves; you might want to write a good story about it, when they're not looking.

You know what I mean. That moment in a relationship in which, at the same time you discover you've been floating in air for 5 and 1/2 weeks you also discover that your feet have dropped a little closer to earth.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women .