Quotes about discovery
discovery gold tests
Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold. Archimedes
discovery exciting good somewhat stunned
This really is an exciting discovery. I'm still somewhat stunned they have such good data.
discovery long india
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India. Arthur L. Herman
discovery quests world
The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
discovery average law
If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently. Dennis Prager
discovery interesting answers
I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers. Dean Ornish
discovery looks exploration
It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit. Dimitar Sasselov
discovery views discipline
[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! - discovery of which aspects can be meaningfully 'studied in isolation for the sake of their own consistency. Edsger Dijkstra
discovery weapons facts
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact. Alfred North Whitehead
discovery deep-thought substance
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field. Alexander Fleming
discovery triumph problem
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
discovery land television
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Aldo Leopold
discovery two achievement
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all. Albert Einstein
discovery nuclear needs
The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.
discovery viva may
Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli. Alexander Graham Bell
discovery mind collaboration
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
discovery self painting
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting. Adolph Gottlieb
discovery ideas track
The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated. Adam Savage
discovery self comfort
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends. Adam Braun
discovery
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Abraham Pais
discovery finding quotes
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
discovery joy piglet
One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery. A. A. Milne
discovery creative serendipity
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen. Adrian Bejan
discovery way changed
The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways. Adam Shankman
discovery philosopher ancient
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
discovery rereading firsts
There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how. Cynthia Ozick
discovery imagination form
The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
discovery everybody nobody
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
discovery voice gestures
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. Robert Morgan
discovery interesting long
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
discovery million
We will get one new discovery for every $1.8 million of research.
discovery
It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science. Billy Graham
discovery space age
[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds. Stephen Jay Gould