Discovery Quotes · Page 36

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

— Archimedes

“Man has made a discovery ... the way to make life easy is to make it meaningless.”

— Kierkegaard, Soren

Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.

— Charlie Campbell

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

— Arthur Keith

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

— Linji Yixuan

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

— William Kingdon Clifford

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

— Abraham Pais

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

— Ira Sachs

According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result…

— Daniel Yergin

The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only…

— Michelle Dean

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.”

— John Tyndall

It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem…

— Paul Davies

Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy,…

— Adam Smith

People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation.…

— Frederick Lenz

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles…

— Johannes Stark

“the train plunges on through the pitch-black night I never knew I liked the night pitch-black sparks fly from the engine I…

— Nazim Hikmet

It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge…

— George Eliot

Since we have emphasized that analysis will lead to a positive conclusion only in the exceptional case, it follows that many securities…

— Benjamin Graham

What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that…

— Charles Dickens

“During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a source of knowledge and…

— Sydney Brenner

“At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was shown to me. The Curies…

— Ostwald Wilhelm

The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the…

— Aleister Crowley

I never like to play for myself, and that is why I don't own a grand piano. To play for yourself is…

— Hephzibah Menuhin

“There are many secret doors around us, in plain sight. We just don't take the time to find and open them.”

— Rebecca Ross

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may…

— A. R. Ammons

Finding your personal style is a rich journey of discovery, wonder, adventure, and excitement.

— Alexandra Stoddard

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

— Joseph Conrad

“You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you...”

— Kate Milford

If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

— Travis Rice

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

— Louis Pasteur

Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness

— Frederick Lenz

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

— Ellen Langer

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

— Dorothy Cottrell

“The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while…

— Sunday Adelaja

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

— Minor White

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

— George Polya

The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.

— Nirmala Srivastava