The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I never went to school for that. In high school we had photography, which was great. That was another moment of discovery.… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which… — John Medina Copy Share Image
One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not… — Carl Sagan 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
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their… — Angus Menuge Copy Share Image
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed… — John Owen Copy Share Image
We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake… — David Zaslav Copy Share Image
I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
“How does she do it? She makes it sound like she is so cut up to be giving them this information, and… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using… — John B. Cobb Copy Share Image
“At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was shown to me. The Curies… — Ostwald Wilhelm Copy Share Image
The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Getting a TV show and getting on to Discovery was the main goal when I started the company in 2004. — Richard Rawlings Copy Share Image
With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out,… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
