Famous Quotes & Sayings

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If the government utilizes the information in any manner, we're very likely going to need to do follow-up discovery.

Alejandro Toledo

If something happens it will be because the intelligence services provoke incidents to discredit us.

Joe Girardi

If it's a discussion every day, it's a discussion every day. If it's a little microphone I throw in his earpiece ... I'll just tell him to hit stand-up doubles, that's all.

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.

Anna Sui

Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!

Allan Savory

We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

Don Tapscott

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

Craig Mello

Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity

Clive Bell

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

Clive Owen

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.

Douglas Coupland

I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger

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.

Alfred North Whitehead

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

Alexander Fleming

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

Alexander Fleming

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

Aldo Leopold

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

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.

Anna Deavere Smith

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

Andre Maurois

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

Ambrose Bierce

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

Alice Walker

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.