Quotes About Discovery

It's so beautiful. Spinner stared at the eagle wings of the Nebula, drinking in its pale colors. Louise, I'm so lucky to be here, to see this. Uvarov might have sent someone else through the Locks, that first time; not me and Arrow Maker. You might have asked someone else to learn to run your nightfighter for you - and not me. Louise, I might have missed this. I might have died without seeing it - without ever knowing it existed.

Stephen Baxter

It wasn't yet a full language. It wasn't even as rich as a creole. But it was a start, and it was growing fast. And in a sense Mother had discovered, not invented, that basic sentence structure.

Stephen Baxter

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions, which is just as well, or it wouldn't be much of a career path, would it?

Stephen Baxter

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.

My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to.

Please don't try to figure out who she is because then you might figure

I guess I could tell people about Punk Rocky and walking home from school and things like that. Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it because they don't involve a ball.

I don't know if it is important to tell you all this, but at the time, it felt like a "breakthrough".

Esta es mi vida, y quiero que sepas que estoy triste y feliz al mismo y tiempo y aun intento descubrir como es posible.

Supongo que somos quienes somos por muchas razones, y quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.

Bueno, esta es mi vida. Y quiero que sepas que estoy al mismo tiempo contento y triste, y que todavía intento descubrir cómo eso es posible.

Verrazzano must have been turning in his grave. (Except that he didn't have one because he'd been eaten.)

NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either.

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

For me," he says, "the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew." In a new poem, he wrote, he "meets himself coming home.

He had been out among the dragons, he said, and he assured himself that they were not so hideous as he had imagined them. Also

XX A learned man came to me once. He said, I know the way, - come. And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened, Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of me feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, I am lost.

Whatever he had learned of himself was of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.

If you ask enough questions, strange as they seem at the time, you may eventually learn something worthwhile.

Surely those folks who play their lives and their work eminently safe don't often put themselves in the position where they can be startled or enlarged. Don't put themselves near enough to the realm of the unknown where discovery resides, and joy has been rumored to appear.

That evening, the first Americans ever to enter Montana, the first ever to see the Yellowstone, the Milk, the Marias, and the Great Falls, the first Americans ever to kill a grizzly, celebrated their nation's twenty-ninth birthday.