In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly!… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
One of the most liberating personal discoveries I have made is the knowledge that whenever I am upset, there is another way… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
The fact that science led me to spiritual insight is appropriate because the latest discoveries in physics and cell research are forging… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein Copy Share Image
I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little… — Justin Winsor Copy Share Image
At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
“The Metal Horn Unicorns say, “No Metal – No Magic. . .and No Technology”. They are exactly right! Metals and other elements… — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that nothing changes a person's life more than the discovery of one solitary truth: There is a… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia"… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before,… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
I earn a lot of money in England doing voice-overs, especially in documentaries. Turn on the Discovery Channel here, and you'll hear… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image