Discoveries Quotes

411 Discoveries quotes by 310 unique authors

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries — Alan Alda
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries — Stephen Hawking
Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely… — William Deresiewicz
Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers,… — Bill Nye
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the… — Winston Churchill
Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession… — Heinz Pagels
We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring… — George Washington Carver
God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else? — George Washington Carver
It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which… — David Lilienthal
Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your… — Guy Kawasaki
...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The… — Linus Pauling
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for… — Hermann Hesse
Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who… — John Charles Polanyi
Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or piffling answers. It… — Peter Medawar
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of… — Claude Bernard
The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil… — Henry Thomas Buckle
The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful… — Claude Bernard
[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much… — Stephanie Kwolek
The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he… — Thomas Kuhn
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a… — Richard Wagner
Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities… — Bill Gates
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom. — Barry Goldwater
Our real discoveries come from chaos, — Chuck Palahniuk
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never… — Henry David Thoreau

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