Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having… — Raimon Panikkar Copy Share Image
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the… — Charles Jules Henry Nicole Copy Share Image
I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible,… — Caroline Adams Miller Copy Share Image
“A Prayer for Daily Insight Open my eyes, God. Help me to perceive what I have ignored, to uncover what I have… — Naomi Levy Copy Share Image
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“The history of the knowledge of the phenomena of life and of the organized world can be divided into two main periods.… — Paul Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image