Quotes about discover
discovery reform saint
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices. Ralph Waldo Emerson
discovery unhappy too-late
It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
discovery discipline focus
Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much. Shannyn Sossamon
discovery europe birth-place
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf. Lewis Mumford
discovery civilization two
Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both? Robertson Davies
discovery serendipity today
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching. Siddhartha Mukherjee
discovery interesting fields
A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which scientists in that field are concerned. Talcott Parsons
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 quests torches
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. Stephen Hawking
discovery disability sometimes
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries
discovery decision solitude
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude. Sigmund Freud
discovery self play
You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery. Shahid Kapoor
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 definitions
Definition is the death of discovery. Tom Shadyac
discovery creative serendipity
The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity. Tom Kelley
discovery essentials our-time
The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future. Thomas Keating
discovery giving brave
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old. Richard Bach
discovery atmosphere done
The discovery of phobias by psychiatrists has done much to clear the atmosphere. Whereas in the old days a person would say: 'Let's get the heck out of here!' today she says: 'Let's get the heck out of here! I've got claustrophobia. Robert Benchley
discovery statistics available
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones. Rene Descartes
discovery doors boundaries
Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond. Rumi
discovery insanity survival
Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species. Vanna Bonta
discovery political intellectual
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. Steven Pinker
discovery law intellectual
How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will mark a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the seventeenth century. Can we now imagine what that would be like? Steven Weinberg
discovery order ideas
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order. Sydney Brenner
discovery interesting people
I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog. Sylvester Stallone
discovery idols lust
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry. Susan Sontag
discovery may way
In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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
discovery civilization competition
How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition? Virginia Postrel
discovery nuts community
The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained. Vincent Bugliosi