Famous Quotes & Sayings

I like to tell people that I discovered (Hansen), ... Alas, he was already discovered when I first met him. He is an excellent historian who has made an enviable reputation for himself.

If Pluto was discovered today, it would not be a planet.

If you discover it, it won't let you get rid of it by just shutting it off,

Irwin Edman

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.

How can it be that being Jewish is important to people, but they're not practicing it? They're not involved in the community. Is there a disconnect here? That question kept me up.

Mel Stottlemyre

He's probably still going to be in some discomfort during the game.

Jay McInerney

I don't think I found my voice until I reached New York. I suppose it's possible I would have had some kind of different literary career if I had not discovered New York.

David Rockefeller

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress

I had to figure it out for myself, so I started reading Kodak books, ... I really enjoyed it when I finally discovered what I was doing.

Sean Maguire

I'm wildly unskilled at what I do. Part of me thinks: 'Why do I think I can pull this off?' but the part of me that has to pay the mortgage thinks: 'Just get on with it!' I'll just keep going until someone discovers I'm no good.

Richard Stallman

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.

Chris Duhon

I'm not thinking anything, I'm just concentrating on the shot. I had plenty of time to see the rim when I was going there. I didn't want him to discourage my shot in any way. If he's going to make a play, he's going to have to make a spectacular play. So I just focused on the shot and let it go.

Gore Vidal

I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.

Paul O'Neill

In our history we have seen times when there is a disconnect between the stock market and the fundamental productive power of our economy, ... The reality is that our economy remains solid, and our recovery is well under way.

Mark Shapiro

I just think there was a disconnect when the White Sox got out to such a big lead.

I recognize there is discontent - for political reform, for the need for fighting corruption, for improving services. But that can not justify this violence of a few.

Mary McDonnell

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

John Major

Being in the Northeast, you can't discount the power of Mother Nature and the effect that winters have on deer.

Cheech Marin

By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't getting any attention, which was good in one sense in that I could get their work for cheaper!

But this doesn't discourage me from living here at all. This could have happened anywhere.

This is a fascinating and unexpected discovery, if it turns out to be true.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And it's not for want of trying. Over the centuries, many people - theologians as well scientists - have tried to explore points of intersection. And anytime anyone has declared that harmony has risen up, it is the consequence of religion acquiescing to scientific discovery. In every single case.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

John Piper

One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.

John W. Thompson

Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit.

John von Neumann

By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes useful; and that this lapse can be anything from 30 to 100 years, in some cases even more; and that the whole system seems to function without any direction, without any reference to usefulness, and without any desire to do things which are useful.

John W. Gardner

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

John Stossel

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Nick Harkaway

Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right now; the forces in my life confound one another. Better, for the moment, to be here and now, without history or future.