Discoveries Quotes
411 Discoveries quotes by 310 unique authors
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the…
— Mary McCarthy
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Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.
— Sydney Brenner
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You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second,…
— Linus Pauling
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We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
— Samuel Johnson
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and…
— Joseph Addison
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Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by…
— Claude Bernard
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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?
— Benjamin Disraeli
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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in…
— Marvin Minsky
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If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and…
— Johannes Kepler
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Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries…
— Linus Pauling
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The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane…
— Albert Einstein
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I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways…
— Christiaan Barnard
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The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical analysis of the…
— Hans Reichenbach
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The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.
— Joseph Henry
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the…
— John Herschel
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If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for…
— Winston Churchill
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Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
— Henri Poincare
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All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
— Francis Bacon
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But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during…
— Hippocrates
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How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for…
— Seneca the Younger
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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature…
— Francis Bacon
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In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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