“This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry. { Comment on… — Adolf Von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living… — Henry Lipson 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
Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to… — Laraine Herring Copy Share Image
No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery. — Carol Kane 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
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have… — Will Willingham Copy Share Image
For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
My first real foray into fashion was the discovery of vintage. Vintage dresses really suit my body type, so the discovery was… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a… — Judy Biggert 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
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
The 'Discovery' album was quite a successful record but we didn't tour after that. — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
