Quotes About Discovery

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.

A little boy gets up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. As he passes his parents' bedroom he peeks in through the keyhole. He watches for a moment, then continues on down the hallway, muttering to himself, "Boy, and she gets mad at me for sucking my thumb!

The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.

A European physician has said something new about love. He has discovered that it is good for the nerves. It would seem to follow that, in case of nerve trouble, it ought to be prescribed.

To a writer, going on from week to week and from year to year, one of the greatest rewards lies in discovering his own inconsistency. The opinions that he expressed so confidently last year he may repudiate now by expressing view curiously different or wholly antagonistic. If such were not the case he might well be concerned about himself and ask what could be the causes that were keeping him from growth.

What's it like to go looking for your soul, only to learn you never had one to begin with?

I was going to bake you a cake with a hacksaw in it," he said without preamble, " but-" "But you realized it wouldn't work." "Well, no. I realized I don't know how to bake.

I don't believe in writer's block. Writer's block is when you're running down an ally and all of a sudden you're trapped by a brick wall. You can't go under, over, or through it. You're stuck. But the problem isn't that you can't pass the brick wall. You see, the problem is that you went down the wrong ally.

Sometimes I wonder: Why can't they just see me, not the kid who killed? But then I wonder: Is it because the two are the same? It's bad enough to feel like an outsider. Even worse is when when I wonder: Is this new behavior, or has she been like this all along and I just never noticed? What have I been missing?

Sometimes I wonder: Why can't they just see me, not the kid who killed? But then I wonder: Is it because the two are the same? It's bad enough to feel like an outsider. Even worse is when I wonder: Is this new behavior, or has she been like this all along and I just never noticed? What have I been missing?

Thomas Edison tried two thousand five hundred different materials in the process of searching for a filament for the light bulb. None worked satisfactorily. So his young assistant complained, "So much work for nothing. We have not learnt anything so far." Edison replied with confidence, "Really? Haven't we learned that there are two thousand five hundred elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb?

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously.

The only thing you discover in the unknown is more of yourself.

What seems to be a dead end may be an arrow pointing you in an unexpected direction.

He had made a discovery of the first magnitude. It opened up an entirely new approach to physics, which led to statistical mechanics, to a proper understanding of thermodynamics and to the use of probability distributions in quantum mechanics. If he had done nothing else, this breakthrough would have been enough to put him among the world's great scientists.

If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.

My past has absolutely no attraction for me, but meanwhile I'm stumbling around in the dark trying to find the doorknob into my future." "The doorknob? Have you even found the damn door yet?" "No," Frank admits. "Then quit looking for the knob! When you find the door, then you can start worrying about how to open it. 'Til then, relax." Mary

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you wanna do with your life; the most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.

I'm looking through you, where did you go? I thought I knew you, what did I know? You don't look different, but you have changed I'm looking through you, you're not the same

I was alone, I took a ride I didn't know what I would find there Another road where maybe I Could see another kind of mind there