My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
“There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
You can experience the thrill of discovery, the incredible, visceral feeling of doing something no one has ever done before, see things… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so.… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first. From day one we were asking ourselves, "What is going to be… — Kevin Rose Copy Share Image
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's… — Jacqueline Kelly Copy Share Image
In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio… — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets,… — Eliot Wigginton Copy Share Image
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based… — Adrian Bejan Copy Share Image
Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
“I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable--nothing which… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim - for… — Margaret Caroline Anderson Copy Share Image
When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: --When women… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
What magazines do is curate: we give accurate and trustworthy information. If you have a problem, it's very difficult to go to… — Joanna Coles Copy Share Image
Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing. I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that… — Ian Simpson Copy Share Image
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery"… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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