Discovery Quotes · Page 67

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and…

— Douglas Adams

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is…

— James Black

Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe…

— Lisa Unger

“To fully carry out your purpose as believers, you have to discover where the people you want to minister to are”

— Sunday Adelaja

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a…

— Moses Finley

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

— Adolf von Baeyer

That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data,…

— L. Todd Rose

“Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.”

— Amit Kalantri

As long as you live in the past, you'll never find your future.

— Anonymous

“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…

— H.L. Mencken

Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of…

— Justus von Liebig

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

— Benjamin Disraeli

The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and…

— Mark Buchanan

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point,…

— Daniel Levitin

I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do.…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“We hunt as we've always done, part sport, part grocery shopping.”

— Lisa Kaniut Cobb

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

— Arthur L. Herman

A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of…

— Talcott Parsons

[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be…

— Martin Heinrich Klaproth

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I…

— Richard Misrach

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us…

— Don Tapscott

“I am not going to apologize for scientific discovery that prevents the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea.”

— Steven Magee

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

— John Stossel

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

— Francois Arago