When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a… — Darby Stanchfield Copy Share Image
People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in terms of a music… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline)… — Henry C. Link Copy Share Image
We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process… — Benjamin Thompson Copy Share Image
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we need to understand that the latter usually… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb.… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Nobody can ever learn our military's secrets - unless, you know, they happen to have the Discovery Channel. Then, it's pretty easy,… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me.… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment… — Ruth J. Simmons Copy Share Image
Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of… — Kim Anderson Copy Share Image
Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought,… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele Copy Share Image
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful thing about the world is how much is unknown to us. There are so many secrets, Hawthorn. So much… — Chelsea Sedoti Copy Share Image
