Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

Albert Einstein

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

Alexander Graham Bell

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

Alexander Graham Bell

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Perry Farrell

We want the fans to discover and explore.

We want to be sure that we execute that discretion wisely. We want to look to the future before we make any changes.

We've never had a sit-down together to discuss this.

Adolph Gottlieb

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Adam Savage

The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

Adam Braun

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

Abraham Pais

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

Claire Danes

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself one and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Matt Mullenweg

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.

George Benson

I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!

Samuel Smiles

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

Wim Wenders

Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.

Beeban Kidron

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

Tom Price

I liked the give-and-take of a policy discussion in the community, with citizens. I didn't know that even took place, frankly, but I never dreamed it would be an enjoyable thing to do.

Terry Hoeppner

We'd like to have had him out there, we need every rep we can get, but discretion was the better part. He'll have a great summer working with the quarterbacks. Like I told him, if he keeps doing what he's doing, he's going to be illegal.

We do discourage playing one off the other,

Aberjhani

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

Sara Zarr

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

Sara Zarr

Making lists of favorite things is, for me, a task ridden with anxiety. What if I've accidentally excluded something I love? What if I discover something new tomorrow that I love even more?

A. A. Milne

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

Jean Giraudoux

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Adrian Rogers

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

Adrian Bejan

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

Adam Shankman

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

We're doing that party, clubby, disco thing -- so much so, that we're thinking of doing some really small gigs. That's one of my goals for this year, to do some really small gigs. They're a lot more intimate and the people there will be right into it.

Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.

Wadah Khanfar

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.