Terra Incognita Quotes
- There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
- If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read.… — Frederick Busch
- The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory. — Daniel J. Boorstin
- We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote… — Walter Bagehot
- I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50… — Jonny Greenwood
- Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that… — Umberto Eco
- Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is… — Sherwin B. Nuland