Quotes About Discovery

Childhood is the writer's bank balance.

So one always starts a journey in a strange land -- taking too many precautions, until one tires of the exertion and abandons care in the worst spot of all.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

A first reading is something special, like first love.

There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love it when one finds it.

I loved a man, she said. I told you—a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man.

There is always that 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.

Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. A few vultures looked down from the

Graham Greene

Olmecs had worked out the principle of the wheel

Hapgood's theory of earth-crust displacement

Kramer's recognition, with the geologists Lees and Falcon, that people could have settled in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers much earlier than had previously been assumed has been entirely vindicated by subsequent discoveries of the traces of 'primitive agricultural villages' dating back more than 8000 years.

He was no longer an orphan, but finding out who his real father was made him feel as if he were standing naked in an icy wind, at night, with no shelter - a wind that would never stop blowing until the day he died

Kaip gali b?ti kažkuo, pirma nepabuv?s niekuo?

It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.

Home is run no more.

Focus on the journey not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Asking questions gives you significant power.

chemists did it in their tubes and doctors did it with patience, but only a techie would do it in geometric progression.

Louis Slotin, at Los Alamos in 1946.

I'll go see what's in the building," she said. "Maybe it's somebody like me, somebody smarter who knows about electricity. Tomorrow morning I'll go see.

The Benefactors could not have known our character before you sent your ships into the Earth's system…

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