“According to an ancient Chinese legend, one day in the year 240 B.C., Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity… — Eduard Suess Copy Share Image
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned… — Nicholas Metropolis Copy Share Image
“In the folklore of science, there is the often-told story of the moment of discovery: the quickening of the pulse, the spectral… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I've always loved independent music stores because the staff is usually there because of a genuine love and appreciation for music. They're… — Brother Ali Copy Share Image
It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want… — Seymour Sarason Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues.… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth.… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
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New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“I came into the room, which was half dark, and presently spotted Lord Kelvin in the audience and realised that I was… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this… — Plato 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
What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through an antique treasure… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
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