Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery. — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“... a discovery you make yourself is worth twenty thousand things that you are taught, even if it is a discovery that… — Esther Freud Copy Share Image
“In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.” — Thomas Hayden Copy Share Image
Great discoveries were once great miseries...Don't forsake your destiny too soon. — Keith Mosaic Copy Share Image
Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. — William Kristol Copy Share Image
You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there. — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
“I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahead of time.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting… — Henry Margenau Copy Share Image
In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to… — Frank Watson Dyson Copy Share Image
The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and… — Anthony James Leggett Copy Share Image
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“To prove to an indignant questioner on the spur of the moment that the work I do was useful seemed a thankless… — A.V. Hill Copy Share Image
Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 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
We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it. — Julien Torma Copy Share Image
Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image