I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel,… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await… — Leonard Adleman Copy Share Image
I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in… — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“To prove to an indignant questioner on the spur of the moment that the work I do was useful seemed a thankless… — A.V. Hill Copy Share Image
We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance.… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits… — Henry Joy McCracken Copy Share Image
How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We're not going to just duplicate 'Heavy Rain,' because we are passionate about innovation and discovery, so we're trying to discover new… — David Cage Copy Share Image
Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an… — Nguyen Quyen Copy Share Image
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest, I have not watched 'Discovery,' I was ignorant of the fact that it was even coming out. I… — Penny Johnson Jerald Copy Share Image
I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Too often, researchers on the cusp of a new discovery are held back by needless red tape and paperwork, meaning their innovative… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan 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 need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans...… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image