Quotes about Discovery

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

roads were made for journeys not destinations

Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.

I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them.

The world you live in is shored up by a collective of agreements. Is that something you think about? The hope is that the truth of the world somehow lies in the common experience of it. Of course the history of science and mathematics and even philosophy is a good bit at odds with this notion. Innovation and discovery by definition war against the common understanding. One should be wary.

If they'd thought a bit more about biological evolution and spent less time cooking up nutty theories they might have uncovered a few simple truths.

That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

Had you noticed them before? he asked. No, never before, she replied. And now you will always see them, he said.

I have travelled, and looked at the world, and loved it. Now I don't want to look at the world anymore, there seems nothing there. In not-looking, and in not-seeing comes a new strength and undeniable new gods share their life with us, when we cease to see.

The real joy of a book lies in reading it over and over again, and always finding it different, coming upon another meaning, another level of meaning.