Discoveries Quotes

411 Discoveries quotes by 310 unique authors

When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several… — Pablo Picasso
Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it;… — Simone de Beauvoir
Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying,… — Gloria Steinem
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make… — Adyashanti
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and… — Albert Einstein
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you… — Marilyn Hacker
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. — Susanne Katherina Langer
The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible. — Justus von Liebig
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we… — Ellen Langer
It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means that… — Claude Bernard
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their… — William James
I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance… — Emile M. Cioran
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions… — Werner Herzog
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is. — Isaac Asimov
For centuries, humans have said to horses, 'You do what I tell you or I'll hurt you.' Humans still say that to each other --… — Monty Roberts
In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your… — E. O. Wilson
It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds… — Carly Simon
We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need… — Michelle Obama
Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as… — Pema Chodron
Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity — Bill Gates
Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries. — Walker Percy

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