Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Priestley

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Julianne Nicholson

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

Paul Dirac

Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future ... If someone can hit on the right lines along which to make this development, it m may lead to a future advance in which people will first discover the equations and then, after examining them, gradually learn how to apply the ... My own belief is that this is a more likely line of progress than trying to guess at physical pictures.

Gustav Mahler

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

Louis Pasteur

Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.

Louis Pasteur

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.

Louis Pasteur

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

M. Scott Peck

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

M. Scott Peck

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

John Charles Polanyi

It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

Matt Taibbi

The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.

Matthew Modine

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

Maria Montessori

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

Maria Montessori

Discipline must come through liberty.

Maria Montessori

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

Maria Montessori

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

Maria Montessori

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

I'm not prepared to discuss details, but I have to say that my understanding is that more investigation is required as far as DNA is concerned. DNA can acquit as well as convict.

I'm not positive if he was on the plane, but I remember having this discussion with him very near to the March 15 meeting.

Kirk Hammett

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

Kevin Costner

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

John Anderson

We had a good open discussion about our region. We were getting them up to speed on what we are all about.

We've not discussed the tournament much, but I'm sure I'll get our girls together (today) and talk about approaching things one game at a time. This may be the hardest draw we've ever had, so that's how we have to take it.

We've never made (playing on the road) a big deal, so it's never become an issue with the kids. There's no discussion about where we're playing. It's just a road game and we just go to practice and get ready to play.

We will be prepared to have a discussion about the subject of the provision of a light water reactor but only after (North Korea) gets rid of its nuclear weapons, gets rid of its nuclear programs, gets back into the NPT and has IAEA safeguards,

Tony Blair

We will be discussing Iraq, no doubt, and the Middle East and various other issues and I'm sure it will be an excellent and constructive meeting, as ever,

We have a disconnect between what the faculty think of as shared governance and what the administration thinks of as shared governance.

This was discussed at the last historical meeting and the house didn't generate any sympathy at all.

This week the BNSF will be meeting with representatives to further discuss the Port of Quincy issue.

This web site is our invitation to you to discuss with us your ideas, hopes and worries for Europe's future.

This was the week that the administration discovered the tide wouldn't come in forever on presidential powers. Partly, that is because so much time has passed without a new attack. And partly, it is because there were so many missteps.

It was here that he discovered his mission.