Quotes About Discovery

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.

I always tried to really motivate kids by getting them excited about stuff – and even being a little mysterious about it, just saying, "I don't know. We got this stuff. We have to figure it out. It's up to you guys," and then lay something on them. And I always found that really piqued their interest better than lecturing them.

A truth concluded will die for truth is not a destiny but a journey

You're not doing a scientific paper; you're doing a journal, if you will, of one man finding his way through parallel worlds.

The unfortunate, truly exciting thing about your life is that there is no core curriculum. . . . So don't worry about your grade or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you.

Han tänkte: "Jag är här." Det är en stor och mäktig tanke. Han har upptäckt att han finns.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. —Eden Phillpotts Just

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.

Why was there still no Ebola vaccine after more than 20 outbreaks of the disease since it was discovered in 1976?

At first I was queasy I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

His aim, in all his investigations, was the discovery and the defence of truth.

searching the sky from high above to below the horizon, gradually working around until he reached the right and the rear.

How strange to feel yourself falling in love with someone you've only just met.

Tetlock concludes that conscious reasoning is carried out largely for the purpose of persuasion, rather than discovery. But Tetlock adds that we are also trying to persuade ourselves. We want to believe the things we are about to say to others.

Animals that fly seem to violate the laws of physics, but only until you learn a bit more about physics.

But in psychology our goal is descriptive. We want to discover how the moral mind actually works, not how it ought to work, and that can't be done by reasoning, math, or logic. It can be done only by observation, and observation is usually keener when informed by empathy.

It's exciting how much there is to learn; several lifetime's worth, really.

Truth is found at the bottom of a bottomless pit." Jerome Facher - A Civil Action.

newfound power leads to new perspective

the gruesome opposite of tearing into gift wrap.