I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“It is to geometry that we owe in some sort the source of this discovery [of beryllium]; it is that [science] that… — Antoine-François De Fourcroy Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“OUR discovery of God is, in a way, God’s discovery of us. We cannot go to heaven to find Him because we… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating...… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out.' You've got to be willing to feel… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about note taking. It's about receiving and processing the world in a… — Stefan G. Bucher Copy Share Image
Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean,… — Chitto Harjo Copy Share Image
The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
The reason I like tracking shots has to do more with a sense of real time than anything else. In 'Gravity,' the… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary… — Theobald Smith Copy Share Image
“At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchhoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchhoff has made a… — Robert Bunsen Copy Share Image
“We will give the rest of them names--Turkey Feathers, Lonesome Pine, Old Sagebrush Mustache--western names as hardy as desert bones, blanched crisp… — Stephanie Dupal Copy Share Image
The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let… — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image