Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity

Bo Ryan

You measure a person by what it takes to discourage them.

Les Claypool

I've had fish come up on stage, and it's pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually.

Paul Sereno

We're really entering a new era where we're going to discover a lot of things.

Bill Nye

I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.

Bill Nye

Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Mike Moran

We have no reason to discount those fears and we are not.

Michel Onfray

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Anne Beatts

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

We still see IBM attractively valued at a 13 percent discount to S&P multiple.

Carl Jung

Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.

Carl Jung

All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.

Calvin Trillin

It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

William Shakespeare

Write till your ink be dry, and with your tearsMoist it again, and frame some feeling lineThat may discover such integrity.

We've got a real disconnect right now between our market and our educational system.

Billy Sheehan

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

Paul Greengard

What this discovery showed was that p11 plays a major role in mood.

When we did that, we found that putting a little nitrogen in these molecules explained the troubling molecules. This discovery takes this reservoir of molecules that we didn't think were interesting and transforms all this stuff into something of biologic interest.

What happens is the principals hide the job during the placement of the consolidated teachers. Then, once they're gone, they magically discover they have that job.

Anupam Kher

I speak for Kashmiri pundits because injustice has been done to them, and the political discourse doesn't give them enough importance.

We need to have a post mortem discovery of why the trial went on for such a long time, why the prosecution was not more selective.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

All of us want something in life, all of us have flaws, and all of us have strengths. So, I always try to discover those things in a character and then try to expose it in one way or another.

Andre Rieu

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.

John Lasseter

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

Sidney Altman

At the MRC laboratory I started the work that led to the discovery of RNase P and the enzymatic properties of the RNA subunit of that enzyme.

The irony is we went way out of the world and had to learn worldly skills to survive out there. What people who understand us discover is we have experts is every field of human endeavor.

John Butler

The issue is whether discovery is relevant here.

Asa Gray

Increased powers of investigation- microscopical and chemical- might be expected to discover them. This expectation has not been fulfilled.

Stephen Corry

India used to trade at a discount to the region, and now it trades at a slight premium. Earnings growth remains pretty solid, but it's starting to slow.

Bill Cowher

I kind of thought it up. I think it's a great analogy. I got screwed up in some of the details. I know that he discovered the West Indies, it wasn't America. I said periscope one time instead of saying telescope; they thought it was a submarine the other day.

In general, you're not going to get a great discount in a great location, right where your job is, a place that you really want to buy.