Quotes About Discovery

THE MAGIC TREE Everyone in that crowd turned its head, and then everyone drew a long breath of wonder and delight. A little way off, towering over their heads, they saw a tree which certainly had not been there before. – The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis

part of what is needed is a theory not only of how we invent, but why we invent. Recall that Edison was inventing for the pure pleasure of inventing. He worked on many of his inventions, not to meet an unmet need, but just to see what happens and what's possible. The Systemizing Mechanism is what drives curiosity.

Nic nie pozostaje ukryte na zawsze.

[Discoveries] are sent to you in strange ways. Grab them while you can. I'll take that as my scientific legacy.

THEY FOUND THE fire exit without turning on any lights. Despite the white flashes in front of their eyes they could see the soft glow from the electric signs.

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

You can start locally. Upturn a glass on a map and centre it on your home. Then draw a ring around the rim and explore that circle so you know it like the back of your hand. All travel gifts memories, and spontaneity has a place.

More of us should try turning a break into a proper adventure with a healthy dose of purpose and meaning. It almost guarantees a lifetime of memories. You could follow a river from source to sea or start a trip in one location and then head to another, exploring along the way.

think the real Golden Age of travel is actually now, when it is cheaper and safer than ever. It's also a guaranteed way of tingling your senses, enhancing your life and gifting you a huge stock of memories, encounters and experiences.

If the style of my programmes was to be inspired by anyone else, I thought it had to be, of course, the great Michael Palin.

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

Enigma was considered invulnerable, until the Poles revealed its weaknesses.

This apparently innocuous observation would lead to the first great breakthrough in cryptanalysis.

I didn't know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

I want the sea to tell them I've found someone I want to marry and that I have to say good-bye—

She told me that love is when a person introduces you to yourself for the first time. After

The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know.

I want to experience the world. How can I be sure if my place on earth is supposed to be here or there, if I have never gone to there? I know all about here, am literally bored shitless with it. What if there, is better?

But there was something about walking

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Snakes don't have fuckin' legs, so how was I supposed to think there'd be one hidin' in the face of a damn rock that's ten feet below the summit?

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.