If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The danger of writing a so-called thriller is that in your last 100 pages, all of these really interesting characters you've created… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch… — William James Copy Share Image
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“So now the sky was falling. Maybe the end of the world. Maybe Jesus coming again. That suited her. White lights shot… — Mary Connealy Copy Share Image
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Closing the gate is meant to be a season-long arc, but the questions that come up in the quest, and the series… — Jeremy Carver Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
I think that people in America, unfortunately or fortunately, are just discovering different aspects of the humanity of African-American people. And so… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
I am Salman's discovery and I have no problems when people say that. Whatever I am today is because of him. I… — Zareen Khan Copy Share Image
This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling,… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a… — Emoke B'Racz Copy Share Image
Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I'm hoping that Abu Dhabi's first piece of street art will inspire the next generation of artists the same way that the… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
As you live you evolve and grow and discover, and I don't like to look at anything as an arrival. I always… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are many, many books I've read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
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