Quotes about Discovery

The propaganda of the Copernican Principle has been that the long march of science has shown how common and ordinary our situation is. But the trend is in the opposite direction. The more you pile on the threats we're discovering in most places in the universe, and you contrast that with the many ways we're in a cocoon of safety, the more our situation appears special.

Any good scientist will tell you there is one important rule: follow the evidence wherever it leads you...Good science is objective —that means it looks only at the evidence, even if the evidence points to something we don't want to believe.

Science should be the search for truth, not merely the search for materialistic explanations.

The more I discover what I am, the more miserable I get; the more I discover who God is and who God made me, the happier I become.

Everything that surrounds you can give you something.51 —Hungarian photographer André Kertész

I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!

But if I'm not the same, the next question is, 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time with the words 'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips. 'I know SOMETHING interesting is sure to happen,' she said to herself, 'whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll just see what this bottle does.

There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping that she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules of shutting people on telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it (which certainly was not there before, said Alice), and tied round the neck round the bottle was a paper label, with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it with large letters.

What matter it how far we go? his scaly friend replied.There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.

she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed;

tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it in large letters.