Quotes About Discovery

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts 'A Shadow Passes' (1919)

There's more to life than just London,' said Nightingale. 'People keep saying that,' I said. 'But I've never actually seen any proof.

This was all news to us lower ranks who, while we'd theoretically known Seawoll had parents, had always assumed that he'd been assembled in a factory somewhere outside Wakefield.

the clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop.

Absence of evidence, as any good archeologist will tell you, is not the same as evidence of absence

It started at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, Street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo, tripped over a body in front of the West Portico of St. Paul's at Covent Garden. Martin, who was none too sober himself

Policing is about moving from the unknown to the known and then further—to the provable.

I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances that were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs office, m'lord." Leave the police alone in a room for five minutes and we start looking in drawers, locked or otherwise. It's a terrible habit.

He was sure that police box hadn't been there before.

The conservatives running the government have always been against the exploration of Mars. What we've found goes against their religious beliefs.

They may not know it," DiNardo said, his smile becoming genuine, "but even the most stubborn atheist among them is working to uncover God's ways.

Isaac Newton had discovered that for every action there is an opposite reaction. Popular wisdom declared that every dark cloud has a silver lining.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

he derives the utmost pleasure from leading a player across "the bridge of finding out who he was and who he has to be, or who he will be.

Ursula K. Le Guin: "One of our finest methods of organized forgetting is called discovery.")

If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.

Well, then I spent three days in the Field Museum, eyeing the exhibits. Can you beat it? I walk around and walk around rubbering at mummies and bones and—well, I ain't kiddin', but they was among the three most interesting days I ever put in.

I think I'd felt that as long as I avoided looking for the tickets, they would be there; it was only if I searched the archive that they'd disappear, as if the past were up until that point indeterminate, that I might outrun it.

one I had— The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you'd forgotten was there.

Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn't exist… First you're slightly disappointed, and then you're happy because you're in on the secret

Dad had crossed the desert of his exhaustion, had found new springs and oases of energies.

Besides, you are seeking something you have already found but don't knoit. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

Besides, you are seeking something you have already found, but don't know it. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

I kept looking forward the answer to things. I kept looking, and I never saw, and I became lost. I lost myself, lost my own reality.