Discovery Quotes · Page 38

“ Balard did not discover bromine, rather bromine discovered Balard . { Comment on Antoine Jérôme Balard , discoverer of bromine .}”

— Anonymous

“Hiring for potential allows you to discover hidden gems that can become future leaders.”

— Dax Bamania

There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

— Graham Moore

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

— Barry Long

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

— Del Close

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

— Lady Hester Stanhope

The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that.

— Franz Ernst Neumann

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

— Jeanette Winterson

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for…

— Patrick Ness

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a…

— Henry Fox Talbot

Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The…

— Horace Walpole

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that…

— John Steinbeck

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not…

— Samuel Smiles

Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“How does she do it? She makes it sound like she is so cut up to be giving them this information, and…

— Elizabeth Wein

There are six senses: five are outer; they tell you about the world. I say something about the light; without eyes you…

— Rajneesh

Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus,…

— William Deresiewicz

Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We…

— Thomas Aquinas

And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this…

— Galileo Galilei

True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.

— Myles Munroe

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

— John Herschel

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

— Jack Williamson

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

— Pierre Boulez

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

— Albert Einstein

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

— Paul Berg

Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

— Glenn Murcutt

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

— Joe Harris

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

— Ernst Mayr

When we discover our purpose, we discover what God put us on this earth to do.

— Senora Roy

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.

— Deborra-Lee Furness

Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities... in the clashes of difference.

— Scott Belsky

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

— Rene Thom

The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.

— Kedar Joshi