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Quotes About Discovery

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there's always a key out there that opens it.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
You have found the word!
~ Jonathan Kirsch
Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.
~ Jonathan Kozol
to gain an understanding of a world that you know little about, you must encounter it firsthand
~ Jonathan Lazar
We find, over time, the deepness of a thing. And if we fail to find it, then we invent it, to show ourselves we are not shallow.
~ Jonathan Lee
Sam," he said, "I knew what you were when you walked into my office." "Why? Because Cricket told you?" "Nope." "Then how? I didn't wear my 'I'm A Werewolf, Ask Me How' button today.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Science is a self-sufficient activity.
~ Jonathan Miller
The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.
~ Jonathan Miller
Reading is about enjoying yourself and learning about the human experience, so go for it.
~ Jonathan Mooney
Granada had never been on the water before and she marveled at how the creek was a living thing with a will of its own, like an untamed horse challenging her to ride upon its back.
~ Jonathan Odell
Voyage set, there to be encountered by millions, one of whom was me.
~ Jonathan Rauch
Jonathan Rogers
~ Scoggin Mound,
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Homo sapiens, discovering God singular and alone, discovered the human being singular and alone. There is no greater dignity than that
~ Jonathan Sacks
We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
~ Jonathan Safran
Do you remember," George went on, "what we found in the tunnels beneath Aickmere's? Aside from a massive pile of human bones." "I found Lucy," Lockwood said.
~ Jonathan Stroud
The object that was pinning me haplessly to the ground, like a butterfly on a collector's tray, was of twentieth-century origin and of very specific function. Oh, all right, it was a public lavatory.
~ Jonathan Stroud
That's just it. I'm the first. And if my venture goes well, and I return to record it, many others will follow after me. There will be a new era between djinn and men. I've made some of the notes already, Rekhyt-my book will take pride of place in every library on the Earth. I won't be there to see it-but who knows, perhaps you will.
~ Jonathan Stroud
She's her?' - Lucy 'Exactly. Penelope Fittes is Marissa Fittes. They're one and the same person.' - The Skull
~ Jonathan Stroud
Lucy,' Lockwood said, 'the last time I saw body language like yours was when we were chatting to Martine Grey about her missing husband, and afterwards found him at the bottom of her freezer.
~ Jonathan Stroud
The men dug some way down, I believe they struck the coffin." "Excellent. We can deal with it now. George here is good with a spade, aren't you George?" "Well I certainly get plenty of practice." George said.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Do you remember," George went on, "what we found in the tunnels beneath Aickmere's? Aside from a massive pile of human bones." "I found
~ Jonathan Stroud
Lucy,' Lockwood said, 'the last time I saw body language like yours was when we were chatting to Martine Grey about her missing husband, and afterwards found him at the bottom of her freezer.
~ Jonathan Stroud