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Quotes About Discovery

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
Un luogo non è mai solo "quel" luogo: quel luogo siamo un po' anche noi. In qualche modo, senza saperlo, ce lo portavamo dentro e un giorno, per caso, ci siamo arrivati.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
Here be the Dragons
~ April Henry
It's like we stepped into some TV show about cops or spies. Only we're not cops or spies. We're teenagers.
~ April Henry
The key to solving most of the people problems that afflict organizations is in discovering how we can solve this central workplace self-betrayal.
~ Arbinger Institute
History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.
~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu
STREPSIADES. So the rear of a gnat is a trumpet. Oh! what a splendid discovery! Thrice happy Socrates! 'Twould not be difficult to succeed in a law-suit, knowing so much about the gut of a gnat!
~ Aristophanes
Rhetoric then may be defined as the faculty of discovering the possible means of persuasion in reference to any subject whatever.
~ Aristotle
Adventure is worthwhile.
~ Aristotle
To be learning something new is ever the chief pleasure of mankind .
~ Aristotle
Sooner or later, though, no matter where in the world we live, we must join the diaspora, venturing beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us. We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives.
~ Armistead Maupin
Would she ever stop feeling like a colonist on the moon?
~ Armistead Maupin
When shall men learn to never touch what has been hidden.
~ Arnold Arre
The quest may be about enkantos -- but in truth. It is a quest of the heart! A quest to know and meet the eternal.
~ Arnold Arre
Man, know thyself. I say it out loud. The phrase is one of those phrases with which everyone is familiar, of which everyone acknowledges the value, and which only the most sagacious put into practice. I don't know why.
~ Arnold Bennett
Now a prig is a pert fellow who gives himself airs of superior wisdom. A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour. A prig is a tedious individual who, having made a discovery, is so impressed by his discovery that he is capable of being gravely displeased because the entire world is not also impressed by it. Unconsciously to become a prig is an easy and a fatal thing.
~ Arnold Bennett
You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far
~ Aron Ralston
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~ Arthur C Clarke
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop
~ Arthur C. Clarke
But at least we have answered one ancient question. We are not alone. The stars will never again be the same to us.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Science fiction could now be made far more convincing by science fact.
~ Arthur C. Clarke