I just play to progressive audiences. You know, if they're watching Discovery Channel, History Channel, that kind of thing, "Monty Python" have… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
I also made two very important discoveries as time went on. In the first place, I discovered that making money was easy.… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
“I observed that plants not only have a faculty to correct bad air in six to ten days, by growing in it...but… — Jan Ingenhousz Copy Share Image
Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by… — James Randi Copy Share Image
The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it.… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether… — Pierre Curie Copy Share Image
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
“To my amazement, miraculously, the lid suddenly loosened and slid all the way open, revealing its hidden cargo: A stack of small… — Syrie James Copy Share Image
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
“The discovery of the fractals had proven that in a world of chaos, there is a way to understand the natural world… — Tim Clearbrook Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
