Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honor Harger

The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl Jansky in 1933.

Hannah Arendt

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Gottfried Leibniz

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

Gillian Flynn

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

He's a player who's got a major league arm, but lacks discipline.

good people, but unfortunately they didn't seem to have the management skills or the determination, the fortitude and the discipline to do the things that had to be done to get us back into a period of fiscal stability.

Frederick William Robertson

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Freeman Dyson

Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.

Freeman Dyson

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

Fred Brooks

The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

Erica Jong

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

Enrico Fermi

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

Enrico Fermi

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Francoise Sagan

I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

Chris Hardwick

If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.

Christopher Columbus

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

George Orwell

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

Frederick Buechner

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

George Eliot

and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

Francis Bacon

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

Francis Bacon

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

Andy Borowitz

I wanted to get away from big, expensive network projects, ... so I moved to New York and I did nothing. And then I discovered the Internet. I didn't think of it as a moneymaker -- I wrote stuff I thought my friends would find funny.

Sometimes you see the talent that a kid doesn't see in himself. Ninety percent is just working out. If kids don't run enough miles, they don't get better. It takes time and discipline and putting in the mileage. After that, the races become the easy part.

Sometimes with the initial shock, you have to have some down time as far as crying, grieving and sometimes go home and be by yourself or with parents. If they do go home, we meet with them and discuss some things that they can do when they do go home - whether it be journal writing, writing a letter to that person telling them what they meant. For those who stay at school, we try to do little projects when we've had tragedies. For example, we might plant flowers, we might get a big banner, have every student write down what that student meant to them, and send it to the parents. There are various things that we do.

Gillian Jacobs

I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time... that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.

Theo Ratliff

It was terrible. We've got to try to figure it out. Watch film. Try to discuss some things.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."

Florida Scott-Maxwell

We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

Ferran Adria

Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.

Henry Mintzberg

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.

Helen Keller

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind."

George Eliot

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.