Quotes About Discovery

We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

Wandering is an essential counterbalance to efficiency.

We have to be prepared and willing to discover what is true even at the cost of our comfort. For real security always lies on the side of truth, not on the side of comfort.

I was seven years old and my father was trying to get me to shut up and go to bed. He was trying to find something on the radio to put me to sleep and accidentally came across a rock station -- I think it was KIMN in Denver. Suddenly, I was like, 'No! No! Leave it there! I like this!' After that, there was no stopping me.

Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

Nicedir sisin içinde yürüyorum. Dü?üncelerimin bu yola girmi? olmas? bo?una de?il. Sis demek, biliyorum, doru?a yakla?makta olmak demek.

Tepeci?in ard?nda yeni mahallelere ula?aca??m? m? sanm??t?m, nedir? Iss?zl???n içinde buldum kendimi.

Bill Brittain

In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

It could be Paris. It could be Rio de Janeiro. It could be anywhere but home: someplace, anyplace, disorienting enough to make him notice what he wouldn't otherwise see. (The medicinal benefits of disorientation can never be overestimated.)

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child.

A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun.

Phlogiston was without color, smell, weight, or taste. When you burned something, you were dephlogisticating it—that is, driving all of the phlogiston out of the material. Often this left behind only ash.

To fall in love with God is the greatest of all romances. To seek Him, the greatest adventure. To find Him, the greatest human achievement.

Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.

But taking wrong trains, encountering unexpected delays, and suffering occasional mechanical breakdowns are inevitable to any journey really worth taking. One learns to get oneself turned around and headed the right way.

12-27-10 Palace Hotel, San Francisco- Over Christmas In bed, lights out: O: 'Oh, oh, oh...!' I: 'What was that for?' O: 'I found your fifth rib.' In the middle of the night: 'Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?' O whispers.

O: "Oh, oh, oh …!" I: "What was that for?" O: "I found your fifth rib." In the middle of the night: "Wouldn't it be nice if we could dream together?" O whispers.

This is when I let each girl in on secret: It can be yours. No different from falling in love with a song, one may fall in love with a work of art and claim it as one's own. Ownership does not come free. One must spend time with it; visit at different times of the day or evening; and bring to it one's full attention. The investment will be repaid as one discovers something new with each viewing... [...] Stay awhile. Spend some time with it. Give it a proper name: Yours.

One of my big fears in life is that I'm going to die and my parents are going to have to clear out my apartment and find that porno wing I've been adding on for years. There'll be more than one funeral that day.

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

What's your one thing? When you pause long enough to hear its heartbeat, your one thing will take your breath away. When you pause long enough to feel it, your eyes will tear up or you won't be able to stop smiling, dancing and having a blast!