Quotes about discovery
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 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 joy piglet
One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery. A. A. Milne
discovery human occasion prevent suffering
One occasion for theological intervention to prevent the mitigation of human suffering was the discovery of anesthetics
discovery level love reach
Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus. Lev Vygotsky
discovery average gorillas
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human. Jared Diamond
discovery doubt moments
The cliché of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process.
discovery tree brain
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction. Janet Frame
discovery self mind
Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind. Barry Long
discovery discipline fields
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery. Bryant H. McGill
discovery imagine humans
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it. Alan Lightman
discovery sky oil
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high. Al Gore
discovery water mind
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind. Charles Kingsley
discovery numbers triumph
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and binding it in the chains of number, to exalt it to rank amongst the exact. Triumphs like these are necessarily 'few and far between.' Charles Babbage
discovery path firsts
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.
discovery mind elements
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom. Barry Goldwater
discovery criticism treasure
Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders. Arthur Symons
discovery revelations certain
To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. Bruce Lee
discovery ends process
Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
discovery knowledge-learning imitation
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
discovery self belief
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process Albert Bandura
discovery serendipity research
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity. Albert Hofmann
discovery two different
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise. Daniel J. Boorstin
discovery self penetrate
For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery D. H. Lawrence
discovery self years
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.
discovery missing trying
The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary. David Attenborough
discovery opposites research
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. Dwight D. Eisenhower
discovery giving people
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis. Don Tapscott