Quotes About Discovery

Finally, after it felt like we'd been crawling along the highway for months, the Columbus skyline appeared on the horizon, glittering like Oz at the end of the yellow brick road.

Getting outside is highly overrated.

GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42–8675309.

Salir es algo que está muy sobrevalorado. Almanaque de Anorak

according to one of his favorite novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

species is capable of existing peacefully within the Sodality," the Envoy said. "It was initiated when your probe first discovered the swastika on Europa's surface. We selected a symbol that your culture most associates with war and death, and then we re-created an enormous replica of that symbol on the nearest celestial body in your solar system with conditions capable of harboring intelligent life.

I didn't get to find out who or what Kilgore was, because my father walked over and closed Milo's pod canopy for him. Then he walked back over and watched nervously as I raised his QComm and placed the video call to my mother.

Og led us through the mansion's lavish front entrance. The lights were off inside, but instead of turning them on, Morrow took an honest-to-God torch off the wall and used it to illuminate our way.

Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon's icy crust. I

NASA dubbed this spacecraft the Envoy I, and it reached Europa on the 9th of July, 1976—the day humanity made its first direct contact with an alien intelligence.

The moment I began searching for the egg, the future no longer seemed so bleak.

Going outside is highly overrated.

For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

I suppose you know what you're about." "Oh no, I don't," she answered. "I never know what I'm about. If you always do, you miss so much—you get into a solemn habit of trying nothing till you're sure.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.

Se dice que una de las curas del amor, de las pocas curas, son los viajes

Esse vagar sem rumo pelos caminhos de nossa Maiúscula América me transformou mais do que me dei conta.

There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly — not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things; the outer limits would suffice.

Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.

The searching human mind is not satisfied merely to discover facts. We also want to know how things happen and why.

Leerlos (libros) se parecía a adentrarse en el mar con la barca, la nariz era la proa, las líneas, olas.

In ogni specie sono i solitari a tentare esperienze nuove. Sono una quota sperimentale che va alla deriva. Dietro di loro la traccia aperta si richiude.