Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

John Lithgow

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.

Ramana Maharshi

You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.

Pearl S. Buck

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Paula Rego

To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things...

Peter Tork

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Peter Gabriel

I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away

Phil Crosby

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Thomas Jefferson

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

Robert Hilburn

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

Robert Henri

We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.

Rollo May

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

Rumi

Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.

Trevor McDonald

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.

Vera Farmiga

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Richard Paul Evans

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Richard P. Feynman

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

Richard P. Feynman

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard P. Feynman

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Richard Whately

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

Rene Descartes

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

Timothy Leary

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.

Robert B. Laughlin

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.

Richard Leakey

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.

Stephen Fry

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

Ross Bleckner

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

Roger von Oech

There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.

Rupert Sheldrake

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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.