Famous Quotes & Sayings

Homer

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

If I can get one good jump in then that can get me into the Big East and maybe something can be discovered the next week and I'm fine. You just have to keep plugging along.

If he can discover some kind of service on top of word processing that helps people work with one another over the Web, then he may be on to something.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

Enrico Fermi

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

Enrico Fermi

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Herbert Hoover

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.

Irwin Edman

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Caterina Murino

It was in England that I discovered theatre. I didn't have any money, but I would just eat yoghurt in order to get some money for tickets.

It was a 2003 Fleetwood Discovery, a 40-footer.

Mohammed Dahlan

It's time for you to discover the suffering of being in government.

Robert Benchley

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous

It took us a while to discover exactly what that right number was, but I think at this point we know.

Richard Thompson

They can't understand what you're doing and why you're saying what you're saying, and that might be the problem with the Discovery Institute.

Sathya Baba

The Veda existed long before it was discovered and put into practice.

They can they discover it's something that is going to make them feel better and give them more energy.

They helped to get Discover Brokerage on the map,

It was here that he discovered his mission.

It was great to discover the simple and unpretentious reaction of one of the world's best-known actors. That's what great people are made of.

Loretta Swit

It's really time for us to grow up and discover our vaginas.

Abe Fortas

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great.

Paracelsus

Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.

Meher Baba

This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.

Martin Buber

To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover...

Pope John Paul II

Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.