I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods. — Solomon Asch Copy Share Image
The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
Stay faithful to your own discovery, leave the rest and life will take care of it. — Mooji Copy Share Image
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I love listening to the radio because there's something about that discovery, that platform, still being the main medium. And it is… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
In order to do something you've never done, you've got to become someone you've never been. I think that all of us… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached… — William Mitchinson Hicks Copy Share Image
The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new… — George Polya Copy Share Image
From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives. — Lamar S. Smith Copy Share Image
They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find. — Gabriel Fielding Copy Share Image
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“The discovery of a new interest as the years roll on is one of life’s good surprises.” — Peter Doherty Copy Share Image
Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science. — Michael Nielsen Copy Share Image
“As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.” — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
There is a reason behind every person that comes into your life. The discovery behind why, is as treasurable as the encounter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Empower yourself and discover what you can do with your life through hard work, concentration and research” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image