Discovery Quotes · Page 38

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

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

— Adolf von Baeyer

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

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

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

— John Stossel

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

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the…

— Max Lerner

Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably…

— Richard Dawkins

Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to…

— Lawrence LeShan

“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once…

— Annie Dillard

When physiologists revealed the existence and functions of hormones they not only gave increased opportunities for the activities of biochemists but in…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre.…

— Deborah Harkness

Fracking is an amazing instance of discovery of many things that come together to make it much cheaper to extract oil and…

— Paul Romer

We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake…

— David Zaslav

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy…

— Andre Gide

By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment…

— John von Neumann

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society,…

— Murray Rothbard

If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere,…

— Jeremy Griffith

Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the…

— Bengt I. Samuelsson

I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I'm talking to you…

— Fred Alan Wolf

Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge,…

— Robert P. Crease

Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol…

— Jacques Loeb

This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance…

— Cato the Younger

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

— Ann Radcliffe

“Losing your job is an awesome opportunity to look inside yourself and make new discoveries”

— Sunday Adelaja

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

— Sydney Brenner

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

— Myles Munroe

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

“All life is a revelation through images and observation. Discovery can be through the eyes of another.”

— Noa Daniels

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not…

— Carl Sagan

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Ezra Pound

“The seed of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.”

— Joseph Henry

“Remember, mystery exists not to block your search, but to entice you toward discovery.”

— Val Edward Simone

Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest…

— Paracelsus

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

— Charles Ghigna

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will…

— Thales

Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.

— William Targ

Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

— Max Perutz