Discovery Quotes · Page 109

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped…

— Albert Einstein

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of…

— Elizabeth Charles

It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life…

— Charles Dickens

These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into…

— Pope Pius IX

Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless…

— Ronald Reagan

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

“The face that was engulfed in sadness just a few moments ago was now having a diabolical glow.”

— Rebecca Harlem

I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well…

— Gene Black

The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for…

— Seneca the Younger

Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend…

— Pankaj Patel

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am curious, I love making discoveries, travelling, speaking with people, go shopping.

— Maria Grazia Cucinotta

The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is…

— Stephen Covey

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is…

— Robert Hayden

Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with…

— Swami Vivekananda

The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The…

— John Adams

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes…

— Alfred North Whitehead

[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and…

— Proclus

I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come…

— Brad Leithauser

What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and…

— Anne Perry

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

— Norbert Wiener

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain…

— Ernest Starling

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the…

— Lukas Foss

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower