Quotes About Discovery

Science is the part of culture that rubs against the world.

One has only to look through the history of science to reach the most probable conclusion: that the shape of things to come is determined by things we do not know today, and by what is unforeseeable.

the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.

Eden grew smaller. Beautiful, said the Captain. But, you know, going by the probability curve, there must be others even more beautiful.

This was how I saw it: the Senders definitely had had no intention of sending us a Pandora's box; but we, like burglars, forced the lock, and stamped upon the plundered contents everything that in Earth's science was mercenary, predatory.

Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys.

We are only seeking Man. We have no need for other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilization superior of our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past. -Snow from Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

El ser humano ha emprendido el viaje en busca de otros mundos, otras civilizaciones, sin haber conocido a fondo sus propios escondrijos, sus callejones sin salida, sus pozos, o sus oscuras puertas atrancadas. El ser humano ha emprendido el viaje en busca de otros mundos, otras civilizaciones, sin haber conocido a fondo sus propios escondrijos, sus callejones sin salida, sus pozos, o sus oscuras puertas atrancadas. - Solaris

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Auch die Galaxis lockt mich nicht mehr und das Reisen hat auch keinen Reiz, wenn man nicht weiß wohin man heimkehren kann.

Lo que anhelábamos: el Contacto con otra civilización. ¡Lo tenemos, hemos establecido ese Contacto! ¡Nuestra propia fealdad, aumentada como bajo un microscopio, nuestra necedad y nuestra vergüenza!

The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is."5

Il vero coraggio è quando non vedi nessuno vicino a te. Allora devi partire da solo. E poi magari ti volti indietro e c'è qualcuno, in mezzo agli alberi, sulla cima di una montagna, al di là del fiume. E capisci che sta camminando al tuo fianco.

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

Every moment built up to this point; every skill I've acquired, every pain-filled memory leads me here. Finally, I know what I am made for.

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

we'll find your treasure." Shifting his head, he pressed

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. —Marcel Proust

Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It's what he asks.

Earth stuff, Mars boy.

She had always had a streak of recklessness about her, a willingness to go chasing hurricanes and tsunamis, all in the name of science, always willing to go that bit further than anybody else. Disaster hunting, she called it, surfing the extreme weather.

Stephen Baxter

Just like the Spanish on Earth in pursuit of gold, the twenty-second-century conquistadors of RDA, are here in pursuit of unobtainium, and have come face to face with hunter-gatherers of the forest