Quotes About Discovery

This is an upper tooth. As you can see, the tooth has a chevron, or scar, above the root, identifying it as a Megalodon.

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Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

Something about history stirred him. He liked following in its footsteps.

There's something you don't know." Those were five words no lawyer ever wanted to hear.

Problems are adventures in disguise

The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

The obscure discovery of a reclusive mathematician in Cornwall forty years earlier who had found a missing number between nine and ten.

Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.

Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.

A library is a fueling station for your mind.

Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.

Life exists so the Universe can experience itself.

In psychoanalysis, you try to retain a discovery; in art, once the thing is made, you let it go.

It took ten years before they discovered half the world was crazy and some of the people in the asylum were fashioning nuclear weapons.

An algorithm gives you the instructions directly. A heuristic tells you how to discover the instructions for yourself, or at least where to look for them.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

Captain Cook was one of the first to utilize the breakthrough invention called the chronometer. Until then, mariners commonly sailed north or south until they reached the latitude on which their port of destination lay. Then they would sail directly east or west. Latitude sailing

some relatively brief survival experiences were in many ways more challenging than some lengthy ones. What is important about an event is not its duration but what survivors discover from the journey.

In a complex world where people can be atypical in an infinite number of ways, there is great value in discovering the baseline. And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality.

Another cardinal rule of thinking like a child: don't be afraid of the obvious.

cuando la pose moral se ve sustituida por una valoración sincera, con frecuencia el resultado es una revelación nueva y sorprendente.

To Borody and a small band of like-minded brethren who believe in the power of poop, we are standing at the threshold of a new era in medicine. Borody sees the benefits of fecal therapy as "equivalent to the discovery of antibiotics." But first, there is much skepticism to overcome.

Muchos de nuestros descubrimientos pueden no ser de mucha utilidad, incluso puede que no sean concluyentes. Pero eso está bien. Lo que intentamos es iniciar una conversación, no tener la última palabra. Y eso significa que en las páginas que siguen puede encontrar unas cuantas cosas de las que discrepe. De hecho, nos decepcionaría que no las encontrara.