Discovery Quotes · Page 77

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and…

— Albert Pike

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.”

— Angela N. Blount

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

— H. L. Mencken

When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.

— Thomas Merton

The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience…

— Andrew Cohen

Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat…

— Freeman Dyson

It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The history of the knowledge of the phenomena of life and of the organized world can be divided into two main periods.…

— Paul Ehrlich

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

— Ernest Holmes

Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process…

— Benjamin Thompson

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

— Ian Stewart

That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.

— Evelyn E. Smith

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of…

— Richard P. Feynman

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of…

— Richard Leakey

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

— Henry Ford

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being…

— Peace Pilgrim

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

— Judith Lynne Hanna

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

— Pliny the Elder

“One day an intrepid sole will climb this mountain on its east side, reaching the summit and the passage that exist between…

— Steven J. Charbonneau

It’s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today…

— Greg Graffin

Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early…

— Julian Schwinger

Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an…

— Nguyen Quyen

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

— Jeff Bezos

The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always…

— Charles P. Kindleberger