“Wood heat is not new. It dates back to a day millions of years ago, when a group of cavemen were sitting around, watching dinosaurs rot. Suddenly, lightning struck a nearby log and set it on fire. One of the cavemen stared at the fire for a few minutes, then said: Hey! Wood heat! The other cavemen, who did not understand English, immediately beat him to death with stones. But the key discovery had been made, and from that day forward, the cavemen had all the heat they needed, although their insurance rates went way up.” WayYearsMadeSaidMillionsFireGroupsMinutesKeysNeededBeatsHumorousSittingDiscoveryYears AgoStonesRateWoodsHeyHeatLightningDinosaursSitting AroundCavemenInsurance Rate Author:Dave Barry
“Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.” WorldYearsTodayFiveAdventureHundredDiscoveryYears AgoExcitingSpeciesErasOur TimeEnterpriseNew WorldLive For TodayGreat Adventure Author:Michael Crichton
“When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.” YearsFoundFiveDiscoveryYears AgoFive YearsJournal Book:A Thomas Merton Reader Source: A Thomas Merton Reader
“Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences.” ThinkingYearsStillsIdeasSometimesFoundFiveTaughtDiscoveryYears AgoDeeperFive YearsJournalPenetrateKeeping A Journal Book:The Sign of Jonas Source: The Sign of Jonas
“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” KnowsYearsCultureTeachIgnoranceDiversityDiscoveryYears AgoProgressiveSixty Author:Will Durant
“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.” WorldShouldYearsFirstsLooksMomentsFeelingsEyeEarthRememberScienceLostWonderRichFieldsStrangeDiscoveryYears AgoLaysRewardsSevenWinterDelightExperimentsSnowDelicateSeven YearsRevealingMagneticDoorstepNew EyesProtonMagnetic Fields Author:Edward Mills Purcell
“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.” IfsWorldShouldYearsBelieveChildrenLittlesCountryFacesScienceI BelieveSocialSimpleLeaderHistoryTeachingModernTomorrowFutureTrainingResearchDiscoveryYears AgoLettersMethodEnormousBritainMore TimeDevotedSocial ChangeTranslationsLaboratoryDescribingDiscussingPresent TimeTeaching ChildrenJuliusFuture LeadersModern English Author:Ronald Sydney Nyholm