Quotes about discovery
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 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 vaccines joy
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie. Edward Jenner
discovery irritated innocence
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences. Edith Wharton
discovery achievement intellectual
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. David Hilbert
discovery despair age
For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages. David Hume
discovery limits weakness
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.
discovery years feelings
I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries. Audrey Tautou
discovery wish orthodoxy
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect. Edgar Quinet
discovery matter dogma
It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography. Edgar Mitchell
discovery space fire
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish. Arthur C. Clarke
discovery self long
So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating. Arianna Huffington
discovery creative daydreaming
Daydreaming incubates creative discovery. Daniel Goleman
discovery world plot
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot. Arthur Keith
discovery agriculture fertility
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
discovery schemes
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries. Barbara Corcoran
discovery years america
The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived. Barbara Ehrenreich
discovery life-is
Life is a re-discovery. Brian Blessed
discovery essentials needs
A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans. Jane Hirshfield
discovery blood desire
It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. Deborah Harkness
discovery philadelphia atheism
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit. Charlie Chaplin
discovery action motive
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves. Charles Caleb Colton
discovery heaven mystery
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. Charles Dickens
discovery people life-is
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things. Alan Arkin
discovery serendipity
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries Alan Alda
discovery needs attention
We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself. David Agus
discovery stories exciting
FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector. David Talbot
discovery self cosmos
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery. Carl Sagan