Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jay Gould

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.

We will place a lot of emphasis on our 130-seat bar-area happy hour, which will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. We will have half-priced food every day for happy hour, but we will never discount the drinks.

Why did this happen here of all places? It's not a particularly easy environment, but the big moment may have been when someone discovered that irrigation wasn't that difficult,

To say I've suddenly discovered the military needs to be involved is like saying wheels should be round instead of square.

Billy Graham

It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.

Barry Long

Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment.

We will get one new discovery for every $1.8 million of research.

We will do that to help alleviate the discomfort because of the terrible delays.

We would never want to discourage anyone's philanthropy.

We would have preferred not to restate earnings, but it is important to recognize that we have had a very comprehensive review ongoing. Where we have discovered or identified errors, we have moved quickly.

We thought the discount they gave was worth singing up and it wasn't any expense to use to do it,

There is no question it is a very different mindset. The one wants fashion first and the other is a discount shopper.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

Karen Russell

I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration.

Steve Squyres

Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery.

Jeff Bezos

Our role is to help people discover music,

I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Carl Sagan

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

Bill Bryson

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

Brian Baker

Some of our test families didn't think they had a problem and just used the reporting feature, but they discovered they had a real problem.

Katherine Harris

limiting the mortgage interest deduction would discourage home ownership and stifle economic growth.

Stanley Hauerwas

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.

Mark Geragos

I think, just by the discovery and where the remains were found tends to, I think ... exonerate Gary,

Sathya Baba

Man today is trying to master every kind of knowledge but is unable to discover his own true nature.

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

Jasmine Tookes

I was actually discovered while at a showroom appointment and was immediately sent over to an agency in L.A. I was about 15 years old at that time.

Jakaya Kikwete

People who sow seeds of discord by preaching tribalism, racism and religious misunderstanding should find another place to go.

Reducing mammography discomfort will help us all reach our shared goal of making sure that every woman gets regular screening mammograms, which have been demonstrated to save lives,

Our normal watering restrictions were put in place during the severe water shortage of the early 1990s. But over time we have discovered that to water more than twice a week is wasteful and does no more good for the vegetation. So what once were water-shortage restrictions are now regular and in-place year round.

Viktor Yushchenko

Our memory must become a warning for those who want to sow discord in our multiethnic family,