Quotes About Discovery

Don't you love that? One of the greatest scientific innovations of all time just came to Townes as he was sitting on a bench in a park. And then he starts "scratching" it out on paper.

Yankee Lady, sent by Emerson, who has discovered that the 'Man Shakespear' is a Myth, and did not write those plays that bear his name, which were on the contrary written by a 'Secret Associate' (names unknown): she has actually come to England for the purposes of examining that, and if possible, proving it … Ach Gott!

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?

I'm useless. I quit everything I try.' 'That doesn't make you useless. It means you haven't quit on finding the thing that's right for you.

Homogeneous groups are great at doing what they do well, but they become progressively less able to investigate alternatives. Or, as March has famously argued, they spend too much time exploiting and not enough time exploring.

Wesley reached out across the infinite, and he found— —Enterprise.

He was dying when I discovered him, you understand? But even in those moments I realised what kind of being I had found. A kindred spirit. Something nigh-immortal, with an intellect I could actually spar with.' He sighed. 'So few can match me. Can you blame me for wanting someone to talk to? A confidante to keep me sane?

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

it was sort of like the first time I got drunk, or slept with a girl; not quite what one expected, really, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way

Una mente perspicaz siempre acaba descubriendo la razón. ¿Pero la suerte? Es invisible, caótica, angelical.

I'd realized that laughter was light, and that light was laughter, and that was the secret of the universe.

Tuve la revelación de que la risa era luz, y la luz risa, y que ese era el secreto del universo.

She wanted to start with names of things, things she could point to. Like Miss Sullivan with Helen Keller. She'd touch Weenie's nose, and say: 'Nose! That's your nose! You've got a nose!' Then she'd touch her own nose. Then his again. Back and forth." "She must not have had much to do.

Months after I got to know the five of them, I found to my surprise that at the start they'd been nearly as bewildered by me as I by them.

At any rate, this was the weekend that things started to change, that the dark gaps between the street lamps begin to grow smaller, and smaller, and farther apart, the first sign that one's train is approaching familiar territory, and will soon be passing through the well-known, well-lighted streets of town.

No reconocimos la gravedad de nuestra situación hasta varias semanas después, cuando la nieve de las montañas ya se estaba fundiendo. Bunny llevaba diez días muerto cuando lo encontraron.

Ever since I'd started riding the train by myself I'd loved to go there alone and roam around until I got lost, wandering deeper and deeper in the maze of galleries until sometimes I found myself in forgotten halls of armor and porcelain that I'd never seen before (and, occasionally, was unable to find again).

Esas imágenes que te llegan al corazón y lo abren como una flor, imágenes que se abren a una belleza tan grande que puedes pasarte toda la vida buscando sin encontrarla.

the world won't come to me,' he used to say, 'so I must go to it'—

I am a Californian by birth and also, I have recently discovered, by nature. The last is something I admit only now, after the fact.

Once, to my delight, I even saw him wearing pince-nez. (Later, I discovered that they weren't real prince-nez, but only had glass in them, and that his eyes were a good deal sharper than my own.)

The woods were silent, not a sound. Henry smiled. Why, looking for new ferns, he said, and took a step towards him.

Il mondo non mi verrà incontro, perciò devo andargli incontro io.