Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Nouwen

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

Henry R. Luce

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

Heraclitus

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.--Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

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.

Ayn Rand

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Bertrand Russell

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Bertrand Russell

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.

Benjamin Disraeli

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Benjamin Disraeli

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

Benjamin Disraeli

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!

James Hogg

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

Edsger Dijkstra

[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! - discovery of which aspects can be meaningfully 'studied in isolation for the sake of their own consistency.

A person whose mind is unattached to sensual pleasures, who discovers the joy of the Self, and whose mind is in union with Brahman through meditation, enjoys eternal bliss.

An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

A president can discover the secrets of leadership (through presidential biographies),

Any news leading to her discovery would be most helpful, so we are pleading to the public so that we can have some ideas of other places to search.

A New York guide is part of an old dream of mine. It goes back 20 years. At first there was France, then Europe, but now there's the world, and New York is the gateway. New York makes you discover other cuisines.

A New York guide is part of an old dream of mine, ... It goes back 20 years. At first there was France, then Europe, but now there's the world, and New York is the gateway. New York makes you discover other cuisines.

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Janis Joplin

As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same f***ing day, man.

Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.

After you've done the numbers, and it's not rocket science to do that, you may have a gap. The earlier you know that, the better. The time to discover that is not when you're retiring.

Carolyn Porco

After what we've discovered with Cassini, if we don't get an extended mission, then there's no hope for anybody.

Then again, that's why we're exploring Jupiter and its moons -- to discover these unusual phenomena.

a disconnect between what she was saying and the plain facts of our relationship.

A disconnect between household income levels and for-sale pricing in the valley's housing market has increased rental demands.

Wolfgang Ketterle

After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.

And when they visit the mall, they may discover downtown.

Jerome Charyn

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

First we have to prove that it will work in humans, ... If that happens, then I would estimate that it will likely be a five-year process to turn the discovery into something people can use.