Quotes about Discovery

Francis Schaeffer's Escape from Reason. To my great surprise and delight, that small book had answered questions I'd long before dismissed as unanswerable.

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

One lives to find out.

The first most important day of you life is the day you were born. The second is when you discover why.

B Y AND BY, WHEN WE GOT UP, WE TURNED OVER THE TRUCK THE GANG had stole off of the wreck, and found boots, and blankets, and clothes, and all sorts of other things, and a lot of books, and a spyglass, and three boxes of seegars.