Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
She had a sadness that was so deep, but it still could turn to light in a second,and when I saw her… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
“The discovery of a brain tumor is a life-changing event that happens quickly, and for most people there is a surreal quality… — Peter Black Copy Share Image
I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
“I'm quickly approaching the moment of discovery: of myself by myself, which was something I knew all along and yet didn't know;… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery is a private event, and the delight that accompanies it, or the despair of finding it illusory, does not travel.… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize… — Nicolas Lemery Copy Share Image
Certainly there are things worth believing. I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced… — Genrich Altshuller Copy Share Image
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and… — Lenny Kaye Copy Share Image
Don't make goals out of the spiritual path. A goal implies time, working toward something in the future. But the spiritual path… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
“After a year, Peter and Neil feel they are beyond the discovery phase. But we're sure that they will continually discover this… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
There are bombshells that happen in court. Especially when the defense doesn't share discovery of material the way the prosecution does, and… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
“The very word “discovery” has something bluntly un-Classical in it. Classical man took good care not to take the cover, the material… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
We start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the… — William Henry Bragg Copy Share Image
I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times'… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd 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
In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Be a Discovery Expert. Be inquisitive. A wonderful way to get to know someone is simply by asking questions. The more you… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
