Discovery Quotes · Page 23

Relearning from children the need to question and discover can ignite ones creativity and reveal more possibilities.

— Nabil N Jamal

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

— Amos Oz

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

— John Lithgow

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. — Albert von Szent-Gyorgy”

— Rose Sandy

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

— Abe Fortas

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature causes the unknown to reveal…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?”

— Ogwo David Emenike

The discovery of artemisinin was an example of successful collective efforts.

— Tu Youyou

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are…

— Santiago Calatrava

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries…

— Francois Arago

One good thing about television is that you have a lot of people with money who have real good cameras going around…

— Grace Slick

Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim -. .…

— Margaret Caroline Anderson

“Discovering a hidden talent is actually a very big deal. It can save your life, as it did for my mother. It…

— Mira Kirshenbaum

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was…

— John Steinbeck

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which…

— Melvin Schwartz

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem…

— George Polya

[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but…

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or…

— Peter Medawar

Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who…

— Francis Atterbury

Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,…

— Thomas Kuhn

[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be…

— Martin Heinrich Klaproth

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it…

— Anonymous

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being…

— Peace Pilgrim

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.

— Anonymous

Never walk away from an idea that makes you angry. Walk into it. Explore it. Maybe there's something for you to look…

— Kemmy Nola

“How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears…

— Orison Swett Marden

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

— Buffalo Bill

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

— Leo Tolstoy

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

— John McGahern

I truly believe the eating disorder is gone. The discovery of what was at the bottom of it lifted me, and I…

— Catherine Oxenberg

The purpose of your life is to discover yourself & with all your heart give yourself to the purpose of your life.

— Anil Sinha

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

— Judith Martin

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

— George Polya

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. MARCEL PROUST”

— Jeff Foster

A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

— Lev Landau

There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

— Warren Weaver