"No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

Discovery, Stars, Spirit, Secrets

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"No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

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"We all seek for lost things within us."

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"Some things were better lost than found."

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"Find a part of yourself hidden in the twilight."

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"Discovering an inner history requires listening " and often not to the first story told."

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"Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map."

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"The apothecary's name was Owlglass. He hummed to himself as he worked in his back room. He'd found a new type of blue fluff, which he was grinding down. It was probably good for curing something. He'd have to try it out on people until he found out what."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"She didn't want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didn't want to be the vanguard-of destruction or salvation. What she had really wanted was to be a girl whose father lived to show her the stars.Instead she had been left to wander them alone. Until she discovered someone who saw the stars as she did."

G.S. Jennsen, American Author

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"There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."

Enrico Fermi, American Physicist

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"But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery."

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"My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation."

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"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."

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"Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

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"What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness."

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"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."

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