Discoveries Quotes
411 Discoveries quotes by 310 unique authors
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I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to…
— Jack Horner
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The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at…
— Tony Hoare
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Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage.
— James E. Faust
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Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later…
— Stephen Hawking
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I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make…
— Jack W. Szostak
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In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because there was all…
— Seth Shostak
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In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in…
— Seth Shostak
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People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only…
— Stanley B. Prusiner
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What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and…
— Elaine Pagels
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Every breakthrough business idea begins with solving a common problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I discovered a big one when I…
— Michael Dell
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of…
— Alan Arkin
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Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.
— Stephen Kinzer
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I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious…
— Shinya Yamanaka
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To me, part of the magic of this era is that the very same innovations, discoveries, and technologies that are allowing us to live longer,…
— Kathleen Sebelius
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I think that the first men to land on Pluto are going to make some very astonishing discoveries. But I am also sure that they…
— Donald A. Wollheim
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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
— Humphry Davy
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but…
— Zahi Hawass
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The great discoveries are usually obvious.
— Phil Crosby
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
— Janos Bolyai
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The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not…
— Patricia Sun
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The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us…
— Lester B. Pearson
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In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before,…
— Frederick Soddy
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A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and…
— Emily Greene Balch
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