Quotes about discover
discovery goes-on want
What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
discovery ideas want
You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up. Linus Pauling
discovery imagination interesting
But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
discovery nothing-new
I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew. Leo Tolstoy
discovery effort special
When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge. Leo Strauss
discovery may dread
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur. Joseph Heller
discovery creative intuition
Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition. Karl Popper
discovery film moments
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing. John Lithgow
discovery land water
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. Jimmy Buffett
discovery self training
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure. Emanuel Steward
discovery america greed
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. Joseph Conrad
discovery self expression
It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise. Leland Ryken
discovery decision choices
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well. John Kenneth Galbraith
discovery faces habit
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. Lord Kelvin
discovery measurement physics
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
discovery interesting world
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely. Malcolm Bradbury
discovery use has-beens
Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
discovery yield tree
Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there. Mahatma Gandhi
discovery ideas creating
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. Joseph Priestley
discovery luxury people
Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people. Julianne Nicholson
discovery people progress
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future ... If someone can hit on the right lines along which to make this development, it m may lead to a future advance in which people will first discover the equations and then, after examining them, gradually learn how to apply the ... My own belief is that this is a more likely line of progress than trying to guess at physical pictures. Paul Dirac
discovery hands fruit
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor. Louis Pasteur
discovery practice mind
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. ... A theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.
discovery curiosity mind
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
discovery use fundamentals
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before. John Charles Polanyi
discovery two history
The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth. Matt Taibbi
discovery knowing people
Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror. Kirk Hammett
discovered forever passed tide time week
This was the week that the administration discovered the tide wouldn't come in forever on presidential powers. Partly, that is because so much time has passed without a new attack. And partly, it is because there were so many missteps.
discovered
It was here that he discovered his mission.
discover great people reaction simple
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.
discovery self solitude
There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery. Jiddu Krishnamurti
discovery mind desire
The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.
discovery vastness modern-life
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. Gilbert K. Chesterton