In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I've got to find a compromise where I don't feel compromised. I've got to find something equally good that they don't feel… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring… — Walter Lewin Copy Share Image
Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In… — Waziyatawin Copy Share Image
Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using… — John B. Cobb Copy Share Image
It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I'm a walking advertisement for PBS and for the Discovery Channel. All of my DVR settings are pretty much set to record… — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
“It was a whole world, his mouth, a whole unsuspected world, and kissing him occasioned the same sense of discovery as sliding… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be.… — David Richo Copy Share Image
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I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the… — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
It was about finding the sacred within myself, my center, my peaceful core. We each have a sacred space within us, a… — Christopher Penczak Copy Share Image
All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming… — Stephanie Kwolek Copy Share Image
You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier ,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best… — Guillermo Gonzalez Copy Share Image
No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery,… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
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