“But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing. I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that… — Ian Simpson Copy Share Image
For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based… — Adrian Bejan Copy Share Image
“I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable--nothing which… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In order to do something you've never done, you've got to become someone you've never been. I think that all of us… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached… — William Mitchinson Hicks Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest, I have not watched 'Discovery,' I was ignorant of the fact that it was even coming out. I… — Penny Johnson Jerald Copy Share Image
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Too often, researchers on the cusp of a new discovery are held back by needless red tape and paperwork, meaning their innovative… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits… — Henry Joy McCracken Copy Share Image
How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
We're not going to just duplicate 'Heavy Rain,' because we are passionate about innovation and discovery, so we're trying to discover new… — David Cage Copy Share Image
Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an… — Nguyen Quyen Copy Share Image
For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and… — Proclus Copy Share Image
It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the… — Rolf-Dieter Heuer Copy Share Image
Honor your seeing...digest your seeing...otherw ise it becomes just another thing you file away in the mind's department of philosophy...yo u're here… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“It seems that in the spiritual world, we do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image