Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Hodgkin

I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. There's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.

Colin Wilson

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

Claude Bernard

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Claude Bernard

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Clayton Christensen

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

Rita Dove

In working on a poem,I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

Seth Numrich

If you think you're in shape, try boxing. You'll discover that you are not. It's the most physically challenging thing I've ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.

I guess there's a point when all of us had lost faith in anything that was new, which helped us discover a lot of really good old records. It's kind of a fresh, nice thing for them to do to pull back from those old records and take those influences and make them into something new that is appreciative of the past yet turning a new page.

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.

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.

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.

Gore Vidal

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

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.

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!

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.

Solomon Asch

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.