Quotes About Discovery

The concept of "delicious" was born in Japan in 1908 when a chemist called Ikeda discovered a "fifth taste" called umami that was neither bitter nor salty nor sweet nor sour but something more wonderful and compelling than any of these.

Like children, many of us eat what we like and we only like what we know.

Feeding is learning.

Dietary change comes not from forcing someone to eat what they do not like, but in helping them to discover their own passions.

The fact that millions of children every year can learn to like chilli offers hope to us all; that our next bite can be different from the first.

What children need is to develop the skills to navigate the environment for themselves.

Our virtues are like crystals hidden in rocks. No man shall find them by any soft ways, but by the hammer and by fire.

Nothing in this world requires such long seasoning and ripening as new thoughts.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

What are those?" I asked, pointing up. "Those are ceiling," Varya said. "And here—sink. See—only turn so, and ffft! water!

One's self is ever a tenuous thing, discovered only in relinquishment.

When she was reading she wasn't the quiet Sullivan twin, she wasn't the one no one ever noticed. She became a princess in a castle. Or a clown juggling under the circus big top. She explored jungles on elephants' backs and took trips to Mars on spaceships. Reading took her anywhere she wanted to go. And Sophie found that she wanted to go absolutely everywhere.

Feelings don't work on a timetable," Claudia said gently. "Sometimes it takes five years for a couple to figure things out, like it did with Mia and Ford. Sometimes it takes fifteen or twenty years, like it did for Rafe and Brooke. And sometimes, it only takes a few seconds to fall at first glance...and to feel deep inside your heart that you've found something special that will last forever.

Falling for you was the scariest thing in the entire world, and losing my heart to you was the most terrifying thing I could imagine. Until I finally realized why I was so afraid. I thought I was going to lose myself in you, when the truth is that with you is where I've finally found everything that truly matters.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

Every human life has a secret essence, it's a secret even to the possessor, because you don't know what to make of it.

We cannot make things true by any amount of effort; we can merely discover what God has made true from all eternity.

Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?

Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.

Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty.

I think becoming a wizard is about discovering what's real and what isn't.

Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.

Science doesn't have all the answers, you know." "It's got all the best questions, though," I said.