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2431 Discover quotes by 1645 unique authors
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There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.
— Philip Guston
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You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error…
— Henry Steele Commager
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty…
— Samuel Johnson
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated…
— George W. Bush
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and…
— Bertrand Russell
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Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of…
— Francois Magendie
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No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know,…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects;…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to…
— Lewis Thomas
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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it…
— Lewis Thomas
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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us.…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he…
— Roger Bacon
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It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
— Niels Bohr
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When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something…
— Francis Crick
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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same…
— Francis Bacon
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Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future…
— Paul Dirac
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Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us,…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from…
— Isaac Newton
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The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new problems. By this…
— George Polya
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