Quotes about discover
discovery self knows
We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self. George Washington Carver
discovery done benefits
One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.
discovery differences world
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world. G. H. Hardy
discovery knowing world
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. Fyodor Dostoevsky
discovery what-matters life-is
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
discovery self treasure
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. Friedrich Nietzsche
discovery views objectivity
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world. John Polkinghorne
discovery achievement purpose
Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and service. The awareness of that potential is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that potential is the discovery of strength. Norman Cousins
discovery people cash
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 Hilburn
discovery states clear
We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted. Robert Henri
discovered earliest monument
The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292. David Roberts
discovery greek world
They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world. Edith Hamilton
discovery accomplishment mind
Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom. Simone de Beauvoir
discovery cities interesting
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. Rem Koolhaas
discovery age modern
I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age. Stephen Fry
discovery painting process
I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting. Ross Bleckner
discovery close-relationship
There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery. Roger von Oech
discovery years belief
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. Rupert Sheldrake
discovering
You can never stop discovering music. Rashida Jones
discovery pace opinion
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. Thomas Jefferson
discovery inner-power
Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery. Richard Paul Evans
discovery law america
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
discovery age lucky
We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.
discovery views somewhere-else
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.
discovery views law
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.
discovery law effort
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.
discovery curiosity doubt
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
discovery errors joy
Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth. William Least Heat-Moon
discovery firsts energy
The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning. Wilhelm Reich
discovery musician poet
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture — that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within. William Kingdon Clifford
discovery justice honor
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow. Winston Churchill
discovery finding-yourself answers
The simplest questions are the most difficult. William S. Burroughs
discovery water community
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope. Woody Allen