Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. — Anonymous 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 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
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall… — Alfred Bernhard Nobel Copy Share Image
Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do… — Louis Pasteur 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
Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the… — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image
My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it. — Julien Torma Copy Share Image
There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
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