Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Everyone's opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in… — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi Copy Share Image
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It's been different. I started driving again. I started… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I always wanted to at least visit Dubai - it was a city that I loved to watch on the Discovery Channel.… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What a wonderful stimulant it would be for the beginner if his instructor, instead of amazing and dismaying him with the sublimity… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share Image
“Building a museum case and filling it with types of mussels is one way of knowing mussels; but on the shore, a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth;… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and… — Fouad Ajami Copy Share Image
“Discovery is the chance they never had, to tell, on oath, how wickedness infects a life. One’s only life. Beyond one’s will,… — Kaimana Wolff Copy Share Image
I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, it wasn't a holiday, but I had expected to do some sightseeing when I went to Haiti to film a series… — Anthony Head Copy Share Image
When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a… — Wolfgang Ketterle Copy Share Image
“I feel like the only reason we’re able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery.… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image