Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be… — Carlo Rubbia Copy Share Image
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Art is a site of wonder and discovery—or rediscovery. Art is a place where we might learn what we think, not a… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon… — George Will Copy Share Image
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and… — Proclus Copy Share Image
“It seems that in the spiritual world, we do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Honor your seeing...digest your seeing...otherw ise it becomes just another thing you file away in the mind's department of philosophy...yo u're here… — Mooji Copy Share Image
We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the… — Rolf-Dieter Heuer Copy Share Image
I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on… — George Smoot Copy Share Image
We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an… — David Agus Copy Share Image
I do it when I'm a preparing for a role quite a bit - I sit with music. It helps influence the… — Rami Malek Copy Share Image
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
“Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to… — Laraine Herring Copy Share Image
“We can't impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties… — Donella H. Meadows Copy Share Image
If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
NASA scientists announced the discovery of 50 new planets, among them what they're calling Super Earth. It's indistinguishable from regular earth until… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I… — Joyce Grenfell Copy Share Image
Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be… — Pankaj Patel Copy Share Image
The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not a warrant for wellbeing and so does happiness not hinge on social success, but is only tangible via intricate,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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![“The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by…” quote by Charles Babbage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb5/charles-babbage-8461_chemicals_the-influence-of-electricity-in-producin_1447735.jpg)
![“For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do... [Lucifer]” quote by Glen Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/88b/glen-duncan-1307_darling_for-you-my-darlings-freedom-to-do-what-y_2150276.jpg)
![“[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.” quote by Proclus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c8/proclus-42813_believe_on-archimedes-mathematical-results-it-is_2925626.jpg)
![“I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb] ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs.” quote by Harold Urey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/78e/harold-urey-42546_application_i-looked-for-it-heavy-hydrogen-deuterium_1237859.jpg)
