Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being a musician was not my choice; it was really a God-ordained thing, so I'm still passionately chasing after the pursuit of… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it,… — Frederick Lenz 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
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
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
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
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
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
It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
We [comics] create our own reality on the show. I'm in a cocoon of the character's creation. Even within that reality, he's… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen.… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Nikola Telsa, an electrical engineer and genius in his own time, once suggested that when science begins the exploration of the non-physical… — Natalie Nolan Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers… — Bertrand Russell 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 emission from the Sun, which had recently been discovered accidentally with radar equipment. ... [B]oth Ratcliffe and Sir Lawrence Bragg, then Cavendish Professor…” quote by Martin Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/908/martin-ryle-41261_aperture_in-1945-j-a-ratcliffe-suggested-that-i-j_1954869.jpg)
![“Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice… [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of…” quote by Arthur Kroker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/911/arthur-kroker-57205_ambivalent_which-is-to-say-that-culture-is-not-a-re_2344316.jpg)
![“We [comics] create our own reality on the show. I'm in a cocoon of the character's creation. Even within that reality, he's in a cocoon. While I'm an improviser and enjoy discovery, the show follows a script. I have a pretty good idea what's going to happen. It's a very crafted, controlled…” quote by Stephen Colbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ad/stephen-colbert-503_character_we-comics-create-our-own-reality-on-the_1213961.jpg)
![“[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aee/stephen-jay-gould-885_age_in-natural-history-great-discovery-often_987347.jpg)
