Quotes About Discovery

I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth—temporal—dimension to link points on the three-dimensional globe. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time. This difference makes finding latitude child's play, and turns the determination of longitude, especially at sea, into an adult dilemma—one that stumped the wisest minds of the world for the better part of human history.

Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.

The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, "You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers."

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

The world once had real problems with heretics splitting the Church and infidels at the gates of Vienna. What real benefit was the discovery of America?" "None to the inhabitants thereof," Cannon admitted. "And its mineral wealth wrecked half the economies of Europe and financed endless wars." "In the end was it good for the world? You cannot price knowledge you haven't gained yet.

Omigosh—I'm a squash!

Science explains everything. But if it doesn't it hasn't yet.

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest

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If you have found the Cross and made Jesus your personal Savior, nothing can stop you from discovering the rest of God's plan for your life. All you have to do is choose to obey Him.

Knowledge is a dynamic cultural and historical process, not some timeless product waiting to be discovered "out there".

David A. Adler

David A. Adler

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

She sat, rediscovering the fullness of her first tongue in one long submersion. Again and again she would pause on a word Melio uttered. She would roll it around in her mind, feeling the contours of it. At times her mouth gaped open, her lips moving as if she were drinking in his words instead of breathing.