Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Fry

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

Sri Aurobindo

Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.

Ross Bleckner

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

Roger von Oech

There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.

Rupert Sheldrake

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

Rashida Jones

You can never stop discovering music.

Thomas Jefferson

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

Richard Paul Evans

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Richard P. Feynman

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

Richard P. Feynman

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard P. Feynman

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

William Feather

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

William Least Heat-Moon

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

Wilhelm Reich

The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.

Vladimir Putin

A foreign threat is useful to put things in order in one's own camp, to make one's allies follow the bloc discipline. Iran does not fit this role too well, and it is very tempting to revive Russia's image of the enemy. But nobody in Europe is afraid anymore.

William Kingdon Clifford

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture — that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

Winston Churchill

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

William S. Burroughs

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

Woody Allen

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

William Wordsworth

We murder to dissect.

William Shatner

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

William McKinley

The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component.

William James

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

Sarah Caldwell

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

Saint Basil

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

Saint Augustine

Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.

Saint Augustine

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

Winston Smith

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

Zora Neale Hurston

How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Zainab Salbi

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.