Quotes about Discovery

Il n'est probablement pas de révélation plus terrible que l'instant où vous découvrez que votre père est un homme... fait de chair.

With Sardaukar, you must scan them, scope them—both reflex and hard ray—cut off every scrap of body hair. And when you're through, be certain you haven't discovered everything.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a background which He already knew.

Halleck murmured: "'For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of the treasure hid in the sand.

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.