Discoveries Quotes

411 Discoveries quotes by 310 unique authors

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
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order. — Sydney Brenner
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
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
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
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
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
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? — Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
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
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
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
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
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them. — Joseph Henry
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
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
... 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
Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made? — Henri Poincare
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
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
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
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
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
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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