Quotes About Discovery

One of them was Moon-Watcher; once again he felt inquisitive tendrils creeping down the unused byways of his brain.

But they knew in their hearts that once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization… Childhood's End - Ch. 15

The time had not yet come when Man could leave his mark upon the Solar System.

British Interplanetary Society.

New knowledge—new wisdom—in realms we have never dreamed of before. It may lure us away from the dangers we have encountered: for certainly nothing we can learn from Nature will ever be as great a threat as the peril we have uncovered in our own minds.

Hilvar knew better than this; he had sensed it instinctively from the first. 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. What

Arthur C. Clarke

He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

When, taking all factors into account, anything can be proved to be impossible, that usually means that it will be done in some different manner and employing a new and unforeseen technique.

Oh, joy of joys! We have found Richard! He is still alive! Just barely, for he is in a deep coma and has a high fever, but he is nevertheless alive.

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or a library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

But to me, MAP was a robot Columbus.

De algum modo, não estava nem um pouco surpreso, nem alarmado. Pelo contrário, tinha uma sensação de expectativa tranquila, como sentirá quando os médicos espaciais lhe haviam aplicado testes com drogas alucinógenas. O mundo ao seu redor era estranho e maravilhoso, mas não havia nada a temer. Ele viajara aqueles milhões de quilômetros em busca de mistério; e agora, ao que parecia, o mistério vinha em sua direção.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible

And just as Columbus's discoveries fixed the geography of Earth forever in human minds, so we learned the geography of the universe

The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas 1968 became the first men ever to set eyes upon the lunar Farside, told me that they had been tempted to radio back the discovery of a large black monolith. Alas, discretion prevailed.

once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

Birdy Edwards is here. I am Birdy Edwards!

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.