Krzysztof Penderecki Quotes

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Definition is the death of discovery.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

I've always liked discovering things.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Perfection is an impossible destination

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

Only those who seek shall find.

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

In order to find, you must first search.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

I'm going to prove the impossible really exists

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.

To find is the thing.