Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Mitchell

It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

Elizabeth Kenny

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Leon Trotsky

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

Tori Kelly

My fans were the ones who discovered me on YouTube. I don't ever want to forget that.

Tift Merritt

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

Elizabeth Holmes

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

Ernest Hello

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Eric Kandel

I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

John Updike

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

Lev Vygotsky

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

Kim Cattrall

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

Kathryn Harrison

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

We are here to discuss the itinerary as well.

We are here to discuss security and venue assessment, and will tour all the venues of the series.

We did not ever get to the point where we had to discuss that. From our point of view, it was important to get it done now to stay away from that question.

We did discuss a number of proposals, and in the end, they liked the qualifying offer. We're very happy to have him back.

Jamie Wyeth

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

James Young

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

Arthur C. Clarke

We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.

Anton Chekhov

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

Arianna Huffington

So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.

Diane Arbus

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

Dean Koontz

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

Daniel Goleman

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

Bryant H. McGill

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

Celine Dion

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

Alan Lightman

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Alain Badiou

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Al Gore

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.

Charles Kingsley

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

Charles Babbage

It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.'