The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what… — Mooji Copy Share Image
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. — Charles Hard Townes 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
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
We do not know who we are until we take time to discover who we can be. Hidden within us is unrealized… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery,… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
I spent my days on the riverbanks, in the woods, in the fields, shooting, hunting and stalking. I unravelled everything within my… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
“I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations of wonder I experienced. I seemed,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances. — William James Copy Share Image
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.” — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
“Almost any applicable discovery has a potential for evil as well as for good.” — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years. — Norwood Russell Hanson Copy Share Image
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image