Quotes About Discovery

Truth is a hunter. Truth is what kills you when you give up the lies.

Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.

Oh. Does Mississippi have some kind of grave-desecration statute? I know they differ from state to state." "Mississippi does, thank God. Anybody who comes across human remains in this state must report them. And a discovery like that stops whatever's going on around it. Even major construction. Doesn't matter whether the land is public or private.

a military base, to check out the story.

The Secret History.

With their ship, the Horse, They ply the sea of grass, They stalk the walking mountains, With stones they make their beds.

One of those useless machines they used to make," he finally began, "was called an MRI.

They find no need and therefore have had no practice in explaining to someone like myself who starts out thinking of a voyage as a process in which everything is fixed except the voyager.

she'd discovered three with their programs intact; one of them, to her delight, had been a flight simulator.

and doesn't know quite what to do with it. I dig in.

What the fear of hell could not do, my discovery of the love of God could do: it began to permanently break the stronghold

an ex-Confederate colorbearer, Andrew Wall, took a ten-mile walking tour of the historic ground in 1913, at the age of 72. On July 2 of that reunion year, Wall came to a place where he believed he had been standing in 1863, when the point end of the regimental flag staff he was carrying was shot off by Yankee fire. Searching through the thick accumulation of leaves and dirt, Wall was amazed to discover the metal flag pole tip that had been blown away 50 years before.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. —ANAÏS NIN

catch me with an unexpected result

Right. Isn't that how science works?" Redwing grinned. "If you don't understand, do an experiment.

She could hear crew footsteps thumping in the corridors above.

the Ocean of Night (1977) Across the Sea of Suns (1984) Great Sky River (1987) Tides of Light (1989) Furious Gulf (1994) Sailing Bright Eternity (1995)

Gregory Benford

Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of a centrifuge to separate U-235 from U-238 was proportional to its length and to the fourth power of the peripheral speed of its rotor. Karl

Fermi turned to Bohr with weary eyes and a slanted smile, and shrugged. "So we thought we had discovered new elements. We even named them—hesperium, ausonium. Wrong! Mythical! They were ordinary old barium and iodine. We were careful—too careful.

He saw a small, secondary explosion in the mushroom column. A yellow sphere flared in orange and then smoke swamped it. It had to be chemical, but what— Ah, he thought. All the iron in the buildings and soil has been thrown up in fine particles. Hot, too. It met the oxygen. "A rust bomb," he whispered. Weird, but probably right. And nobody had thought of it before. Karl

One of the polar explorers, the one who got to the South Pole first, Shackleton

What interests me," she took up finally, and there was now no touch of her characteristic satire, "is a life in which I am engaged in discovering what interests me. Not just now, as a young woman, but when I am a wife, and when I have children, and beyond. A life of imagination, and experience, and engagement, and commitment to something beyond myself.

I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says 'You Are Here'.