We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before.… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But… — Richard P. Feynman 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
“Look upward to your God for direction! Look inward into yourself and discover your talents! Look outward into your environment and get… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive… — Robert Fagles Copy Share Image
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
HAVE AN ADVENTURE. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to… — Joline Godfrey Copy Share Image
“The fact that simultaneous discovery occurs in mathematics, as well as the sciences, points toward some objective element within their subject matter… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
“We are paint streaked runners, deafened by the cries of all the sad people. It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is… — Paul-Emile Victor Copy Share Image
Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Trying to change situations or conditions solely with action in the world would be like trying to fix an unwanted image in… — Larry Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In… — Mooji Copy Share Image
I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs,… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite… — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
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