Quotes about discovery
discovery disability sometimes
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries Stephen Hawking
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 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 mind quiet
You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems. Ramana Maharshi
discovery light internet
How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankind's recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don't like light. And knowledge. Rainbow Rowell
discovery fundamentals debt
Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin. Satyajit Ray
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
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 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
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