A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
One good thing about television is that you have a lot of people with money who have real good cameras going around… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I love watching programs about Discovery Channel and just reading New Scientist, and all that kind of stuff. Im just fascinated by… — Jay Sean Copy Share Image
I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Don't make goals out of the spiritual path. A goal implies time, working toward something in the future. But the spiritual path… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Since we have emphasized that analysis will lead to a positive conclusion only in the exceptional case, it follows that many securities… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
With constant guidance and direction the opportunity is lost to understand one's worth, and the ability to learn and discover one's true… — Rachel Wells Copy Share Image
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image