Quotes About Discovery

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

He did not wander aimlessly, though he never knew which village would be his next port of call. He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life.

La única posibilidad de descubrir los límites de lo posible es aventurarse un poco más allá de ellos, hacia lo imposible.

This hydrogen was under such enormous pressure that it had become a metal.

Discovery was no longer a happy ship.

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

for there was no vessel—at least of Man's making—anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars.

My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman.

Many scientists flatly denied the possibility. They pointed out that Discovery, the fastest ship ever designed, would take twenty thousand years to reach Alpha Centauri — and millions of years to travel any appreciable distance across the Galaxy. Even if, during the centuries to come, propulsion systems improved out of all recognition, in the end they would meet the impassable barrier of the speed of light, which no material object could exceed.

if it really was brilliant I'd have thought of it already.

an expressive phrase coined by a Princeton mathematician of the last century: "Wormholes in space.

I said nothing about men adapting themselves to Mars. Have you ever considered the possibility of Mars meeting us half-way?

Call it the Star Gate.

who is better off, the child with a mentor who knows and tells everything or the one whose teacher helps the child find her own answers?

For the last time, David Bowman slept.

He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it….

Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence.

Apart from the jet-black sky, the photo might have been taken almost anywhere in the polar regions of Earth; there was nothing in the least alien about the sea of wrinkled ice that stretched all the way out to the horizon. Only the five space-suited figures in the foreground proclaimed that the panorama was of another world.

Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?

When 2001 was written, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto were mere pinpoints of light in even the most powerful telescope; now they are worlds, each unique, and one of them—Io—is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System.

Though that, surely, could not be its ultimate goal, it was aimed squarely at the Greater Magellanic Cloud, and the lonely gulfs beyond the Milky Way.

Hello, Dave," said Hal presently. "Have you found the trouble?" This

We're particularly anxious to get our hands on Pioneer 10—the first man-made object to escape from the Solar System.

They could never guess that their minds were being probed, their bodies mapped, their reactions studied, their potentials evaluated.