Discovering The Unexpected Quotes

#1. Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.

George E.P. Box

#2. What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

Brian Cox

#3. When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

Callie Khouri

#4. I'm sorry. He's driving me a little crazy this morning." "That's their job, dear. Sari's grandfather was a menace." She looked up with a smile. "And yet we love them.

Elizabeth Hunter

#5. He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the door, ripped the coats off it, and flung the door wide, the rack held above his head like a javelin.
On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. Is that a coatrack?

Cassandra Clare

#6. He was trying not to grin, but it was exceedingly difficult with Lady Penwood gasping like a fish on land.

Julia Quinn

#7. My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment.

Vikrmn

#9. The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close internal connection, and between which, as our knowledge increases, we are continually discovering new and sometimes wholly unexpected ties.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#10. How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

Naveen Jain

#11. The tricky part about discovering our giftedness is that it may be in an area that feels unexpected.

Meg Meeker

#12. Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.

Stephenie Meyer