The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
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The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in… — Davies Gilbert Copy Share Image
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“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have… — Will Willingham Copy Share Image
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Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought,… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele Copy Share Image
The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment… — Ruth J. Simmons Copy Share Image
Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of… — Kim Anderson Copy Share Image
Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nobody can ever learn our military's secrets - unless, you know, they happen to have the Discovery Channel. Then, it's pretty easy,… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb.… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
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There was the slow discovery for me in the early '80s that Republicans are people too... That Republicans are perfectly reasonable people...… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century… — Geza Vermes Copy Share Image
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