Quotes About Discovery

I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the aerial creations of the poets. The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

We returned again, with torches;

We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile: a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge, and guided the dogs. We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes, until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.

Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive.

A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree.

But the latter obtained my undivided attention: 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!

It seemed to me as if nothing would or could ever be known. All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable.

Na verdade, quando busco as origens da minha obsessão, que veio depois a reger o meu destino, descubro que ela brotou, como um rio na montanha, de um fio de água remoto e quase esquecido, que foi-se avolumando pouco a pouco, até converter-se na torrente que arrastou em seu curso todas as minhas esperanças e alegrias.

Morning, guys!! Today, I wandered a bit from the path of life...

It all became clear to me that day, September 3, 2004.

fortochka. It is a tiny window cut inside a larger pane. Even when windows have been sealed for the long winter, the fortochka can remain in use, being opened regularly to allow air to circulate. The Soviet university, as it turned out, had its fortochkas, and the way to learn was to hunt for them and then to stick your whole face in them and breathe the fresh air as though one's lungs could be filled up with reserve supplies.

Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

The journey itself is my home.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

to meet someone new because I'm curious about people," although

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?

Simultaneous discovery and invention mean that both patents and Nobel Prizes are fundamentally unfair things.

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view. [...] A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. The forest is more interesting than the clearing.

Technology will find its inventors, rather than vice versa.