Quotes Tagged "discovery"

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.

All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

Faith is life and knowledge is death.

The joy of research is picking the fruits of discovery.

Research is like swimming. If you stop swimming you will never make it to the other side. If you stop researching you will never make it to discovery.

Sustained research will lead you to discovery.

Discovery comes from a lot of failures, knowledge, wisdom, faith, and a dose of craziness.

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

I wish to find you where the sky meets the ocean's edge. I wish to paint sunlight on your skin and whisper the song of a lightly-breaking wave into your soul. I wish to bathe in your essence and, when the Sun finally sets, lay nestled in your arms needing nothing but your heat beating in my year and the certainty of your hand on my chest.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.