“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
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
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
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
Henry Adams was scared shitless, politically, by the discovery that England isn't alien to a boy from Boston, but it was true,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision,… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown… — Augustus Pitt Rivers Copy Share Image
“My uncle read me Omar Khayyam. In Arabic. Not Turkish or even English. I tried so hard to understand it. I would… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is… — Lester Grinspoon Copy Share Image
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Immediately after film school, I got an opportunity to work as a freelance cameraperson. I used to shoot a documentary film for… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that the marriage of academic medical centers and academicians with the private sector is a very, is a marriage made… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
“Extreme night shift work in high altitude astronomy is easily avoidable by using a split night shift where the first night shift… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown;… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Understand the importance of Reason in life, cause its reason only that lets human beings participate in life, to be human is… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you are going to ask me what I watch on TV, I would probably have to say the majority of it… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes… — Larry Page Copy Share Image