Discoverers Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
— Francis Bacon
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up…
— Horace Mann
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who…
— Charles Darwin
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One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we…
— Heinrich Hertz
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We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.
— Glenn Murcutt
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
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Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral…
— Albert Einstein
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The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time…
— Rick Strassman
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America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
— Bill Nye
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Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.
— John Charles Polanyi
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And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And…
— John Donne
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The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.
— Robert Grudin
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The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible…
— George Johnson
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I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but…
— Henry David Thoreau
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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
— John Thomas Sladek
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Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.
— Paul Allen
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Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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