There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating...… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about note taking. It's about receiving and processing the world in a… — Stefan G. Bucher Copy Share Image
If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out.' You've got to be willing to feel… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need… — Andrew Kendall Copy Share Image
It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
As we thought about how to help portfolio companies grow and scale while simultaneously supporting corporate discovery and experimentation, it became clear… — Meltem Demirors Copy Share Image
The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
“Of course, he sees creation as discovery. I mean, everything is already created, by the first cause---call it God if you like;… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone.… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The precondition for kitsch, is the availability of a fully matured cultural tradition, whose discoveries kitsch can take advantage of for its… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is… — James Black Copy Share Image