Quotes About Discovery

In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. A

Inventar, deve-se admitir humildemente, não consiste em criar algo do nada, mas sim do caos.

which I hoped to make. None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and

Si dice che Isaac Newton abbia confessato di sentirsi come un bambino che raccoglie conchiglie sulle rive dell'immenso e inesplorato oceano della verità.

I confess that neither the structure of the languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science.

Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

Sin embargo, ¡cuántas cosas estamos a punto de descubrir si la cobardía y la dejadez no entorpecieran nuestra curiosidad!

After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

mi objetivo. Me sentía como el árabe que enterrado junto a los muertos encontró un pasadizo por el cual volver al mundo, sin más ayuda que una luz mortecina y apenas suficiente. Amigo mío, veo por su interés, y por el asombro y expectativa que reflejan sus ojos, que espera que le comunique el secreto que poseo; mas no puede

Si ningún hombre permitiese que ambición alguna se interpusiera en la tranquilidad de sus afectos domésticos, Grecia no hubiese sido esclavizada, Cesar habría conservado su país, América seria descubierta mas gradualmente y los imperios de México y el Perú no habrían sido destruidos.

You made a discovery yesterday; remember? 'No man is an Island.' It's true in more ways than one. Don't go on hating yourself because there are some things you can't do and can't face on your own. None of us can.

And in another light-year or two I was through the word-barrier, and the book had suddenly reached the stage – the wonderful moment to get to – where I could walk right into my imaginary country and see things that I had not consciously created, and listen to people talking and watch them moving, all apparently independent of me.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos;

partly as an expedient for exercising any untried resources of mind.

from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me – a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immensity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius, who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.

tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.

Para mí el mundo era un secreto que anhelaba descubrir, para ella era un vacío que se afanaba por poblar con imaginaciones personales.

Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!

After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I

Remember, I am not recording the vision of a madman. The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens, than that which I now affirm is true. Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

No leía, como hacen muchos, meramente para pasar el rato, sino que seguía interrogándose a sí misma y al autor, modelando cada idea de mil maneras, deseosa de descubrir una verdad en cada frase.