Discovery Quotes · Page 32

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

— Ezra Pound

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

— Eric Hoffer

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

— Mary Parker Follett

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

— Adolf von Baeyer

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

— Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

— John Stossel

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that…

— Jeff Lindsay

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and…

— Julian Huxley

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact…

— James Whitcomb Riley

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately…

— Joseph Addison

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's…

— Joseph C Zinker

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy…

— Anonymous

Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and…

— Pope John Paul II

Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…

— John Herschel

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of…

— Pope John Paul I

“Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet…

— Alfred Wegener

Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to…

— Richard P. Feynman

True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate…

— Richard Wagner

Love seems to be the appreciation that we are all little lumps in the same earthly soup which is a little lump…

— Ken Dychtwald

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Once you learn the joy of reading a whole world of discovery opens up and you'll never look back”

— Toby Reynolds

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience…

— William Stafford

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

— Philip K. Dick

Our talents are signifiers that lead us toward our unique paths. Follow your passion and you will soon discover where you fit…

— Senora Roy

Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

— Jean Wilson

I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks.

— Karen Marie Moning

“There is always a worthy prize for DISCOVERY. Discover what you love doing, develop and deploy it and LIFE has new meanings…

— Sesan Kareem

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

— Lee Iacocca

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

— James Truslow Adams

“The discovery of purpose is in connection to activities that inspires you the most.”

— ANIKOR Daniel

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

— Lise Meitner

“A great book is not always on the best seller list, follow your own path to discovery”

— Taylor Shawcross

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery…

— Steve Toltz

“The face that was engulfed in sadness just a few moments ago was now having a diabolical glow.”

— Rebecca Harlem

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

— Alexander Smith