Quotes About Discovery

force them to discover with as much difficulty as possible exactly what they have done to disappoint you; and, finally, let them grope around blindly in the fog that you have generated around yourself until they stumble into and injure themselves on the sharp hidden edges of your unrevealed preferences and dreams.

If you really loved me, you would brave the terrible landscape that I have arrayed around myself to discover the real me.

But the delights of his previous life were ashes in his mouth and he ventured forth a third time

You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know.

We are dormant adventurers, lovers, leaders, artists, and rebels, but need to discover that we are all those things by seeing the reflection of such patterns in dramatic and literary form.

Scientific truths were made explicit a mere five hundred years ago, with the work of Francis Bacon, René Descartes and Isaac Newton. In whatever manner our forebears viewed the world prior to that, it was not through a scientific lens (any more than they could view the moon and the stars through the glass lenses of the equally recent telescope).

have meaning in your life is better than to have what you want, because you may neither know what you want, nor what you truly need. Meaning is something that comes upon you, of its own accord. You can set up the preconditions, you can follow meaning, when it manifests itself, but you cannot simply produce it, as an act of will.

Sometimes the only place you find help is the last place you look.

Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world. Math is a science of not being wrong about things, its techniques and habits hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, sounder, and more meaningful way.

The light that you discover in your life is proportionate to the amount of the darkness you are willing to forthrightly confront (from the debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek)

And that's how we live: wandering endlessly, concentrically outward, seeking in others a kindling spark of the love which has long lain, dormant, dark, unstoked in our own deepest souls.

Algú va dir que la veritat surt quan es busca.

Tot allò. L'Eduard Calvo va adonar-se que era un eufemisme estrany.

Para eso se es joven, para probar cosas, para experimentar. Para eso y para desafiarlo todo.

Iban a cultivar un huerto estéril, un huerto muerto, pero ¿cómo podían saberlo su nunca habían salido de Tenochtitlan?

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

Yes, those ten-billion-dollar twenty-seven-kilometer-long machines are good for more than just finding bosons named after Peter Higgs.

if there were once more stars visible to us than there are today, what once-obvious facts are we missing because humans arrived nearly fourteen billion years after the party started?

Today's philosophy questions are tomorrow's precision science experiments.

del puerto de Ticomán tomar la lancha que va a la Playa de la Media Luna (hotel Aurora)». No imaginé el significado que iba a tener para mí este apunte.

I think I understood love better when I had no love.

Ayudar a que la persona encuentre ese libro que le habla, y que tiene significado especial para ella, debe de ser maravilloso.

no hay seres humanos valientes de entrada. El valor nace del miedo. Uno se descubre a sí mismo a través de las pruebas.»

hay seres humanos valientes de entrada. El valor nace del miedo. Uno se descubre a sí mismo a través de las pruebas.»