Discoveries Quotes
411 quotes by 322 authors
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
— Isaac Asimov
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Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
— Bob Beauprez
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made -…
— Tori Amos
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Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
— Ivo Andric
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Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions,…
— Robert Henry Thurston
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men…
— George Ellery Hale
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Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.
— Ellen Langer
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You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.
— Lise Meitner
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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
— George Washington Carver
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The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"
— Robert Ballard
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Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.
— William Arthur Ward
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
— Karl Pearson
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The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of…
— Ernest Rutherford
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From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry…
— Swami Vivekananda
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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in…
— Max Lerner
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
— Michel de Montaigne
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys,…
— Margaret Mead
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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by…
— Jacques Monod
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