Quotes About Discovery

und eure neuen Maschinen mögen nur neue Drangsale bedeuten. Ihr mögt mit der Zeit alles entdecken, was es zu entdecken gibt, und euer Fortschritt wird doch nur ein Fortschritt von der Menschheit weg sein. Die Kluft zwischen euch und ihr kann eines Tages so groß werden, dass euer Jubelschrei über irgendeine neue Errungenschaft von einem universalen Entsetzensschrei beantwortet werden könnte.

I discovered our dear poet in my office, a simple clerk.

I take it that the intent of science is to ease human existence. If you give way to coercion, science can be crippled, and your new machines may simply suggest new drudgeries. Should you, then, in time, discover all there is to be discovered, your progress must become a progress away from the bulk of humanity. The gulf might even grow so wide that the sound of your cheering at some new achievement would be echoed by a universal howl of horror.

A compass needle, though it's made of steel, Always trembles before it settles down. Your hand's just looking for its pole, that's all.

La science ne connaît qu'une loi : la contribution scientifique. (Scène 14, Andrea, La Vie de Galilée, Bertolt Brecht )

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

But remember that reading provides nourishment for hungers we might not even be aware of. How often have I chosen a book at random and found in it an answer I didn't realize I was seeking.

With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

One day you'll do something, see something or get an idea that seems to pop up from nowhere. And you'll feel a kind of stirring- like a warm flicker inside your chest. When that happens, whatever you do, don't ignore it. Open your mind and explore the idea. Fan your flame.

I'd never heard of a holy man named after a llama. I'd never heard of a great, gaping vagina. And I didn't know a thing about the black boomerang of karma. all I knew for sure was this: I had been plunked into a strange, perfumed world that, as far as I could tell, seemed to be run entirely by women.

I'd thought he was stars and then I'd thought he was a fox. I had thought I'd been alone, but I hadn't.

You aren't happy," Estela says. "I can't be happy," I say. "Look at me, Kenzie." "I'm looking at you, Estela." "Do you know your own heart?" "I don't know anything." "Go," she says, "and think. And don't come back until you know.

When I was a boy, that was all I wanted—to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I once tried to glue together with a bottle of Elmer's; you should have seen your grandmother's face. But I never got any higher than the backyard fence I'd launch from. I never got inside a cloud. Your raven did.

Might you soon belong to you?

Teaching is the parenthetical hold, the instant of discovery, left to the instant.

Meander within the space of insufficient evidence.

I wouldn't want to, say, move to L.A. or New York or some other fast-paced city where there's lots of action and excitement. Here's what I think: you make your own adventure in life. And I truly believe that if you open your eyes to your surroundings, there's lots of neat stuff to be found practically anywhere on earth. For me, the grass is never greener outside of Hawaii. If you ask me my

Pete opened the cellar doors.

Duuni let her questions fall and rode on toward wherever it was she was supposed to go, watching the mountain change slowly, like a jewel turned in the light.

The real thing was how I felt: like a root groping in darkness for water it knows is there, that it must have. Nall was that water.

I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.