Discoveries Quotes

411 Discoveries quotes by 310 unique authors

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are… — Sigmund Freud
The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough… — Carl Sagan
By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock… — Albert Hofmann
the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. — Madeleine L'Engle
All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents. — Mark Helprin
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or… — Henry Ford
I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela… — Jorge Amado
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of… — May Sarton
The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. -… — Chuck Palahniuk
It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to… — Stephenie Meyer
How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to… — Rainbow Rowell
Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and were lead astray.… — Unknown Author
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. — Henry David Thoreau
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures. — Humphry Davy
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make… — Claude Bernard
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. — J. G. Holland
I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know… — Twyla Tharp
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . .… — William Graham Sumner
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest… — Lord Kelvin
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics,… — Carl Sagan

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