Quotes about discovery
discovery ideas waiting
We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered. Napoleon Hill
discovery slave printing
Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave. Napoleon Bonaparte
discovery faces habit
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. Lord Kelvin
discovery measurement physics
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
discovery interesting world
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely. Malcolm Bradbury
discovery use has-beens
Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
discovery yield tree
Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there. Mahatma Gandhi
discovery intuition important
Intuition is more important to discovery than logic. Henri Poincare
discovery important guessing
Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
discovery generations spontaneity
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
discovery blood ideas
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood. Henrik Ibsen
discovery choices desire
The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love. Henri Nouwen
discovery painful theological
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
discovery poet made
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. Henry R. Luce
discovery unexpected hard
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain. Heraclitus
discovery meditation intuition
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.--Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. Johann Kaspar Lavater
discovery laboratory led properties work
At the MRC laboratory I started the work that led to the discovery of RNase P and the enzymatic properties of the RNA subunit of that enzyme. Sidney Altman
discovery venture opinion
It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. Ayn Rand
discovery mathematical-logic age
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself. Bertrand Russell
discovery numbers west-indies
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.
discovery progress comfort
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. Benjamin Disraeli
discovery fire brilliant
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?
discovery eggs simplicity
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!
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 ideas leading news places public
Any news leading to her discovery would be most helpful, so we are pleading to the public so that we can have some ideas of other places to search.
discovery estimate likely people process prove turn work
First we have to prove that it will work in humans, ... If that happens, then I would estimate that it will likely be a five-year process to turn the discovery into something people can use.
discovery exciting fossil further jigsaw piece puzzle recent series
This exciting fossil is a further jigsaw puzzle piece in a series of recent discoveries.
discovery turns unexpected
This is a fascinating and unexpected discovery, if it turns out to be true.
discovery literature logic
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. Gertrude Stein
discovery feelings genius
Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling. Hans Hofmann
discovery curiosity intellectual
Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries. Gordon Gee
discovery perception life-is
Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions. Gladys Taber
discovery germs genius
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance. Giuseppe Mazzini