Quotes about disco
discovery atmosphere done
The discovery of phobias by psychiatrists has done much to clear the atmosphere. Whereas in the old days a person would say: 'Let's get the heck out of here!' today she says: 'Let's get the heck out of here! I've got claustrophobia. Robert Benchley
discovery statistics available
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones. Rene Descartes
discovery alcohol drug
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment. Timothy Leary
discovery wish ends
I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery. Samuel Johnson
discovery trying research
When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery. Robert B. Laughlin
discovery long tasks
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task. Richard Leakey
discovery fake television
The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised. Trevor McDonald
discovery quiet-moments made
In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made. Vera Farmiga
discovery civilization two
Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both? Robertson Davies
discovery hands feelings
I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it? Virginia Woolf
discovery miracle perpetual
... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.
discovery stuff meaning-of-life
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. Werner Erhard
discovery alternatives may
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly? Walker Percy
discovery genius connections
Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
discovery fantasy faster
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes! Salvador Dali
discovery civilization competition
How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition? Virginia Postrel
discovery nuts community
The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained. Vincent Bugliosi
discovery wish important
One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission. W. H. Auden
discovery meaning-of-life recognition
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.
discovery achievement taste
I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities. Stephen Bayley
discovery years law
When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself. Thomas B. Macaulay
discovery essentials our-time
The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future. Thomas Keating
discovery curiosity intellectual
Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries. Gordon Gee
discovery perception life-is
Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions. Gladys Taber
discovery germs genius
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance. Giuseppe Mazzini
discovery sun discovering
All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering. Herman Melville
discovery land sailor
So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders. Henry David Thoreau
discovery imagination finding-yourself
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. Jerry Gillies
discovery korea religion
The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape. Christopher Hitchens
discovery world physics
We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
discovery risk values
There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Jeanette Winterson
discovery serendipity involved
There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery. Jeff Bezos
discovery blood nurse
Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches Georges Cuvier