Discoveries Quotes

411 Discoveries quotes by 310 unique authors

Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They… — James Black
God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting the Big Bang… — Henry Margenau
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of… — M.C. Escher
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was… — Francis Darwin
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new… — Henrik Ibsen
The act of composition is a series of discoveries. — E L Doctorow
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world… — Margaret Bourke-White
Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help… — Murray Rothbard
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will… — Alexander Graham Bell
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of… — Rose Philippine Duchesne
Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it… — Seneca the Younger
Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most… — Swami Vivekananda
Certainly there are things worth believing. I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you ask me to… — Albert Einstein
I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince… — Allen Ginsberg
Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox. — Tina Fey
As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base my beliefs on… — Bill Nye
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. — Alexander Graham Bell
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a… — Luchino Visconti
What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong… — Archibald MacLeish
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality. — Piet Mondrian
Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. — Arthur Koestler
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view,… — Colin Maclaurin

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