Quotes about Discovery

We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance?

There had been so many things to learn. Arrakis would be a place so different from Caladan that Paul's mind whirled with the new knowledge. Arrakis—Dune—Desert Planet.

Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.

A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions Una, a brilliant fifteen-year-old, a born writer who came to Harlem from Panama five years ago, and only then discovered the conflict between races, asked me, Mrs. Franklin, do you really and truly believe in God with no doubts at all? Oh, Una, I really and truly believe in God with all kinds of doubts. But I base my life on this belief.

I have learned that I love. Love. That is a good word.

I don't go along with the people who say they'd never want to live their childhoods again; I treasure every bit of mine, all the pains as well as the joy of discovery. But I also love being a grownup. To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look towards the future.