Quotes About Discovery

How you are in this place that has been sealed since the time of Caesar Augustus? one of the archaeologists demanded in amazement. I was looking for my sister, Dan quipped. Your sister ? Oh—here she is. Dan reached through the opening and hauled out an equally grubby Amy.

Amy, since when do you have a boyfriend?

All at once, Darren's voice called, I've got it! It's here!

I burst out with, "Aaron—Bear—" The names are unfamiliar on my tongue, like I've never spoken them before.

Noah stepped forward for a closer look. "If it's a girl," he said finally, "then what's that?" And we could all see exactly what he was pointing at.

The Janus, the Tomas, the Ekaterina, and the Lucian!

If there is a Mount Everest," I remind him. "We learned about it in school, so it might be total baloney.

Bear's eyes narrow. "Exactly how much do you remember about the Graybeard Motel?" "Nothing," I reply honestly. He grins. "If you want to go there when you don't have to, you didn't just scramble your brains. You knocked them out completely

Good things happen when you get out of your comfort zone and try stuff.

This is just our hobby, Dan answered quickly. Instead of collecting stamps, we find creepy old places and poke around.

If it wasn't for Randy, I never would have taken the bike ride that turned into my first run-in with Serenity's invisible barrier. That was a horrible experience, but I'm grateful for it now. Without it, I might never have stumbled on the truth about Project Osiris. We could all still be lab rats in the experiment.

Turns out C. J. Rackoff is allergic to peanut butter. Who knew? And I love peanut butter.

Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they'll stumble on the right one.

Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

A scientist can hardly encounter anything more desirable than, just as a work is completed, to have its foundation give way.

Thus the thought, for example, which we expressed in the Pythagorean theorem is timelessly true, true independently of whether anyone takes it to be true. It needs no bearer. It is not true for the first time when it is discovered, but is like a planet which, already before anyone has seen it, has been in interaction with other planets.

So who are you?" Jiming asked. "Other than a boy who brings wine to toads at night.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps.

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us ... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of cheese. You don't do crosswords, do you, Mr. Wormold? I do, and they are like people: one reaches an end. I can finish any crossword within an hour, but I have a discovery concerning the blueness of cheese that will never come to a conclusion.

He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhiliration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.