Quotes About Discovery

Then she asked herself, Isn't he in love with someone? Who could it be? …Why, it's me! All the evidence immediately became clear to her, and her heart leapt.

L'art d'écrire est l'art de découvrir ce en quoi vous croyez.

Ženska srca su kao one male komode sa tajnim skrovištima, prepune fioka koje se uvlace jedne u druge; uzalud se ?ovek mu?i, polomi nokte, da bi na kraju, negde na dnu, pronašao neki sparušeni cvet, prašinu ili ništa!

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

There is a part of everything which is unexplored, because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the smallest thing has something in it which is unknown.

Le voyage est une espèce de porte par où l'on sort de la réalité connue pour pénétrer dans une réalité inexplorée qui semble un rêve.

The passions have been sufficiently interpreted; the point now is to discover new ones.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny . . ." —Isaac Asimov

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

But there was also the shame of a man who suddenly discovers that all his lies were transparent, and everything he thought so safely hidden had always been in plain view. He had been living one of those dreams. The kind of dream in which you are walking down the street, meeting friends and neighbours, smiling and nodding, and when you arrive at home an pass a mirror you see for the first time that you are stark naked.

Mindst tænkte jeg da paa, at mit Livs alvorligste eventyr skulde begynde, at en Begivenhed, der engang havde beskæjftiget mig saa levende og stærk, det tabte Frøkorn, glemt og uset, nu vilde vise sig, som en grøn, duftende Væxt, der slyngede sig fast om mit eget Livstræ.

Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey.

My slight fall had extinguished the lantern, but I produced an electric pocket lamp and viewed the small horizontal tunnel which led away indefinitely in both directions. It was amply large enough for a man to wriggle through; and though no sane person would have tried at that time, I forgot danger, reason, and cleanliness in my single-minded fever to unearth the lurking fear.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

Politics under democracy consists almost wholly of the discovery, chase and scotching of bugaboos.The statesman becomes, in the last analysis, a mere witch-hunter, a glorified smeller and snooper, eternally chanting 'Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum!

We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes, But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

I had evoked - and the book was indeed all I had suspected.

we are all roamers of vast spaces and travellers in many ages.

It is absurd to say that mathematicians have not discovered the fourth dimension.