Quotes about Discovery

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Children are all foreigners.

I can guarantee people, then, that if they learn, discover, understand, explore, and apply the same principles that I learned, that success is predictable.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.

She had the feeling that if she went home, she might never get away. She thought of birds caught in nets. There was something inside her, beating against her ribs, urging her to do things she might not otherwise attempt. She had the strongest desire to get lost.

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.

She had been wrong about love. She had thought it was meant for fools alone, only to discover it was a fool who walked away from love, no matter the cost or the penalty.

this occurred only once in a person's life, and then only if he was lucky. It happened the way things happen in a dream. A door opens, a person calls your name, your heart beats faster, and everything is familiar, yet you don't know where you are. You are falling, you're in a house you don't recognize and yet you want to be here, you have actually wanted to be here all of your life

She did believe in one thing, something so vast and deep she couldn't bring herself to tell John, even though it was probably safe to confide in someone she would never see again. She believed that people could lose themselves.