Discovery Quotes · Page 42

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought.

— Theobald Smith

To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover...

— Martin Buber

A life worth living is one that is expanding, renewing, discovering, revealing and becoming.

— Edwin Mamerto

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is…

— Robert Hayden

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

— Ernest Rutherford

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

— Mary Parker Follett

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

— Eric Hoffer

I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place.…

— Susan Hockfield

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of…

— Kirk Hammett

It's very clear to users, more clear than in other apps, that Foursquare is an app for search and discovery, and we're…

— Dennis Crowley

The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It…

— Marcel Duchamp

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that…

— Edmund White

My number-one recommendation is to invest in people. Humans that are well trained are the inputs into this discovery process. And there's…

— Paul Romer

For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot…

— Rob Halford

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of…

— Billy Corgan

We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with…

— Selma Fraiberg

I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use.…

— Samuel Johnson

For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed…

— Helen Vendler

The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which…

— Irving Fisher

Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean,…

— Chitto Harjo

The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen…

— Carl Rogers

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications…

— George Orwell

“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating...…

— Brand Blanshard

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

— Adolf von Baeyer

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

— Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

— John Stossel

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Once you learn the joy of reading a whole world of discovery opens up and you'll never look back”

— Toby Reynolds

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience…

— William Stafford

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

— Philip K. Dick

I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks.

— Karen Marie Moning

Our talents are signifiers that lead us toward our unique paths. Follow your passion and you will soon discover where you fit…

— Senora Roy

Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

— Jean Wilson

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

— Lise Meitner

“A great book is not always on the best seller list, follow your own path to discovery”

— Taylor Shawcross

“There is always a worthy prize for DISCOVERY. Discover what you love doing, develop and deploy it and LIFE has new meanings…

— Sesan Kareem

“The discovery of purpose is in connection to activities that inspires you the most.”

— ANIKOR Daniel

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

— James Truslow Adams