Quotes About Discovery

the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. —JOHANNES KEPLER

I was looking for a way to be someone else,'I said.

One day mankind will create a telescope so powerful that we can peer so far into the heavens that we will find ourselves looking up our own ass. We will turn to one another and exclaim, aliens? And they will say no assholes there are no aliens just assholes.

I learned that once you take advantage of the opportunity to learn and experience and open yourself to a new way of living, you can't wait to do it again and do it better and find new ways of feeling that again and again and again.

So wait a minute. I go looking for the story of the guy who wrote this awesome wind scale tha tblew my mind. I start reading about his life, and before he's sixteen years old I've already run across a family's flight from the poorhouse, an early balloon flight, an eccentric father, a young man at sea, Malay pirates, shipwreck, castaways, buried treasure, and Captain Bligh, fresh off the mutiny on the Bounty . Not a single word about the wind, but honestly, at this point, who cares?

Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.

But what the fuck ... ever gave you the idea that Locke was the first name I was actually born with?

In 2013 a lost Egyptian city named Heracleion was discovered underwater after being lost for 1200 years in the Mediterranean Sea.

Q: How do you embarrass an archaeologist? A: Give him a used tampon and ask him which period it came from.

Q: What did the nurse say when she found a rectal thermometer in her pocket? A: "Some asshole has my pen.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Like the man who looked for hours under a streetlight for the keys he had dropped in the alley because the light was better there, we waste so much time looking for what we want where it isn't to be found, consumed by "the underlying fear of… being torn away from our chosen image of what or who we are in this world." (Miller)

What was that smell? Had someone left food in here? She looked under the desktop, then under the chair before she realized what it was. The smell was her.

My name is Carter Hall and I am a detective of history. But you are a detective, too. For to be human, at its core, is to question and quest. To seek answers about who we are. Even when--or especially when--those answers are beyond our grasp.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

I was willing to do it. was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard things ahead - a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything I'd encountered so far - the law, my classmates, the great piece of discovery - had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued. I would have the best of it, I decided, whatever the obstacles.

I was willing to do it. I was determined to do it. By the end of the day, that had become my reaction to all of the signs of hard things ahead - a new purposefulness, hardy resolve. Everything I'd encountered so far - the law, my classmates, the great piece of discovery - had left me in deep thrall and I was bent on making sure that continued. I would have the best of it, I decided, whatever the obstacles.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Always there is something of interest to be seen if one but knows where to look for it.

My business is to know things, especially things which I am not supposed to know.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

So you drive on to the frontier of writing where it happens again.

Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.

Evo Devo has not just provided a critical missing piece of the Modern Synthesis - embryology - and integrated it with molecular genetics and traditional elements such as paleontology. The wholly unexpected nature of some of its key discoveries and the unprecedented quality and depth of evidence it has provided toward settling previously unresolved questions bestow it with a revolutionary character.