Discovery Quotes · Page 25

He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries.

— Anonymous

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.

— William Stanley Jevons

“We must allow people the space and time of discovery, and trust in all that is to come.”

— Bryant McGill

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

— Carl Sagan

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to…

— Thomas Paine

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact…

— Michael Pollan

People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery.

— Vijay Prashad

Everyone talks about discovery, but I really believe that great content finds its audience.

— Mitch Lasky

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken…

— Benjamin Disraeli

That's a discovery process. That's the terrifying and wonderful part about getting picked up to series. You get to develop the stories…

— Chuck Lorre

It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually…

— Howard Whitley Eves

If you are going to ask me what I watch on TV, I would probably have to say the majority of it…

— Boti Bliss

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of…

— George Washington Carver

We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn…

— Frank Crowninshield

Immediately after film school, I got an opportunity to work as a freelance cameraperson. I used to shoot a documentary film for…

— Kabir Khan

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its…

— Jacques Monod

The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student…

— Georg Buhler

Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you…

— Doc Childre

When we reveal ourselves to our partner and find that this brings healing rather than harm, we make an important discovery -…

— John Welwood

“A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize…

— Nicolas Lemery

Certainly there are things worth believing. I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you…

— Albert Einstein

Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced…

— Genrich Altshuller

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

— Henry David Thoreau

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be…

— Trevor McDonald

We are a country of Newton, Hodgson, and Turing. Ours is a country of ideas, invention and discovery and is truly a…

— Rishi Sunak

“There is no cure for illusions. There is only the opportunity for discovery.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

— Thomas Noon Talfourd

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“When you allow the spirit to speak through you and empower it with love, you will discover things you didn't know you…

— Charbel Tadros

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

— Judith Lynne Hanna

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

— Jennifer Aniston

The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models

— Herb Pardes

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

— Pearl S. Buck

“Claiming sole credit for scientific discovery is like claiming sole credit for a movie. Just like you and everyone involved, I played…

— Lashon Byrd

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger…

— George Bernard Shaw

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

— Chris Lytle

The cliché of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process.

— Janet Maslin