Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets,… — Eliot Wigginton Copy Share Image
Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He wriggled his toes,… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
I'm hoping that Abu Dhabi's first piece of street art will inspire the next generation of artists the same way that the… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under… — Rupert Spira Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Self-discovery is finding something you can live for and die for, assessing your strong points and striving to improve your weaknesses, then… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image