Quotes About Discovery

All decisive advances in the history of scientific thought can be described in terms of mental cross-fertilization between different disciplines.

The philosophy of nature evolved by occasional leaps and bounds alternating with delusional pursuits, culs-de-sac, regressions, periods of blindness, and amnesia. The great discoveries which determined its course were sometimes the unexpected by-products of a chase after quite different hares. At other times, the process of discovery consisted merely in the cleaning away of the rubbish that blocked the path, or in the rearranging of existing items of knowledge in a different pattern.

The roads that lead man to knowledge are as wondrous as that knowledge itself.

When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.

Now we shall touch the bottom of this swamp.

There was probably a range of people she had never experienced in this world and for which she had no preparation

They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.

Wild Cat Island

It was like exploring a place that you have seen in a dream, where everything is just where you expect it and yet everything is a surprise.

P...U...D...D...I...N...G Pudding, said Roger. They've kept some for us. She hasn't finished the word, said Dick. Titty was reading steadily on. H...E...A...D...S...End of word

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : Find it ! bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot...

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined.

Must we behave like some damn godforsaken tribe that's just been discovered?

In the year she knew him, before they were married, she discovered a little magic in herself, and for a while felt like a blithe genie released from a lamp. She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for Chacko was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.

Something lay buried in the ground. Under grass. Under twenty-three years of June rain. A small forgotten thing. Nothing that the world would miss. A child's plastic wristwatch with the time painted on it. Ten to two, it said.

Ja vi?a grib?tu, lai piepild?s k?da maza v?l?šan?s, t? b?tu- Nezin?t. Nezin?t, ko katra diena vi?ai sniegs. Nezin?t, kur vi?a b?s r?t, n?kamaj? m?nes? vai gad?. P?c desmit gadiem. Nezin?t, k? vi?as ce?š pagriez?sies un kas gaida aiz l?kuma.

My third answer for becoming a positive deviant: Count something. Regardless of what one ultimately does in medicine—or outside medicine, for that matter—one should be a scientist in the world....If you count something you find interesting, you will learn something interesting.

The companies' most effective tactic, however, was simply to put out the goods and let surgeons play.

It had never occurred to me that I could go.

Surgery itself is a kind of autopsy. "Autopsy" literally means "to see for oneself," and, despite our knowledge and technology, when we look we're often unprepared for what we find.

Feeling pity for him, I stopped to browse and was stunned to discover what he had on offer. He

This was one place where I knew I had found something worthy of awe.